The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction

Mad scientists! Desperate housewives! Murderous robots! Scandalous starlets! Sordid, drug-fueled love affairs! This anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and detective stories, none of them ever before translated into English, along with reproductions of wacky cover art and question-and-answer sessions with some of the authors. Grab a masala vadai, sit back and enjoy!

"...possibly the most significant contribution to Indian writing this year" —Vijay Nambisan, Deccan Herald

"...there are two reasons to buy this book. One, it's a wonderful read and two, it's the best-produced paperback in the history of Indian Publishing" —Mukul Kesavan, Outlook Magazine

"...these anthologies deceptively and admirably unsettle Eurocentric notions of both literature and culture... and do so with plenty of lust, crime, blood, and guts" —Alice Robinson, Southpaw

Includes 17 stories by 10 bestselling Tamil authors, translated into English for the first time. Including detective fiction heavyweights Subha and Pattukkottai Prabakar; Rajesh Kumar, the world's most prolific living author of fiction (with over 1750 novels to his credit); Ramanichandran, queen of romance and the all-time bestselling author in Tamil; and many more!