{"product_id":"the-abyss-1","title":"The Abyss","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Abyss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJeyamohan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9798893380040\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eTransit Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaw, tender, and darkly comic, \u003cem\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e is widely considered a masterpiece from Jeyamohan, a writer whose body of work has shaped modern Tamil literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful, God-fearing man about town: he has a loyal wife, three daughters, and money to pay for their dowries. However, it's an open secret that his success is fueled by a trade that is as profitable as it is cruel: he owns--and breeds--a group of physically deformed beggars and places them outside temples to collect money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is Mangandi Samy, with just one arm, no legs, and \"a little head on top,\" who only speaks in divine songs he himself invents; Ahmedkutty, an intellectual whose testicles hang to the floor \"like two great pumpkins\"; Muthammai, mother to eighteen children. To Pandaram, they are only \"items,\" to be bought and sold like cattle. But when he makes an impulsive trade, his luck turns. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with an unflinching eye and suffused with a deep existential longing, \u003cem\u003eThe Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinary novel--for its terrain, its fundamental questions about humanity, and its depiction of human suffering and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"The Abyss | Jeyamohan | Hardcover | 9798893380040 | New | Fiction 1728151","offer_id":48937806102680,"sku":"1728151","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81mFEQ2weIL.jpg?v=1777384870","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-abyss-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}