Authors: Perumal Murugan
One Part Woman (20 page)
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First published in Tamil as
Maadhurbaagan
by Kalachuvadu Publications, Tamil Nadu 2010
First published in English in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India 2013
Copyright © Perumal Murugan 2010
Translation copyright © Aniruddhan Vasudevan 2013
Cover photograph © Getty Images
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
ISBN: 978-0-670-08651-1
This digital edition published in 2013.
e-ISBN: 978-9-351-18585-7