சுஜாதாவின் குறுநாவல்கள் - முதல் தொகுதி

by Sujatha

First Collection of Short Novels by Sujatha

440 pages, Hardcover

Published December 1, 2007

About the author

Sujatha was the allonym of the Tamil author S. Rangarajan, Author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular authors in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil movies.

As an engineer, he supervised the design and production of the electronic voting machine (EVM) during his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a machine which is currently used in elections throughout India. As an author he inspired many authors, including Balakumaran, Madhan.

Reviews

[B.S.Ananth Kumar · Rating 3 out of 5]

All are based on crime stories and Psychological thrillers.
Some stories I don't like at all with sad ending .
Sivantha kaigal and Kalaintha poigal are very interesting.
Page turner book. Must read for all Sujatha fans

[Baskar V · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's best experience of reading his books always that, in this stories very mind level amd psychology - psyco path thrillers of how they come into to state , their early childhood and everything.

[Arvind Srinivasan · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I have to give rating based on pace with which I read it ... could be given 10 out of 5 :) but that is success of sujatha's short stories, you will feel like having to read for one hour and end up reading 3 hours continuous. Keeping this book down was very difficult for me, but after reading if I have to analyse there was nothing very different in many stories. It was almost the same feeling with his previous kurunovel collection. But feeling the same in second one as well shows power and mesmerism in sujatha's writing.

I just had one story to comment on :
Vilimbu - A 20 page story, but it was of different level. Last word of the story is when you realise the plot. If you see a mystery flim and plot reveals in last second, that too ending up with a big surprise how awesome would it be .... almost same feeling. Kept analysing the story for next couple of hours to know what all clues were given for me to have guessed it. I am sure this would feature even in the last list of top 10 short stories read in my life.

Good read for those who would like to read about people whom we meet daily and how they react if they do some crime by instinct on some instant.