The Lime Green Matador: Twenty-Four Lives of Pichumani

A man with one eye tries twenty-four different professions across thirty years in rural Tamil Nadu. Brick-making. Well-digging. Milk delivery-a chit fund. Bus conducting. A tea shop. Every single one collapses.He wears bell-bottoms in a village where dhotis are standard. He decorates his bicycle with ribbons and plays MGR film songs from a mounted tape recorder. He conducts a lime-green Matador van that breaks down three times most mornings but somehow gets one hundred children to school, because when it stops, the children push, and he announces them as heroes.He breeds rabbits and then cannot bear to sell them for slaughter, so he opens their cages and sets them free.The Lime-Green Matador is the story of Pichumani, the uncle who tried everything, who failed by every conventional measure, who succeeded at the only thing that truly matters: being remembered with love. It is about a large family spanning four generations, about a village built to last and a way of life that couldn't, and about the understanding that broken things can move forward if enough people push together.Heartbreaking and inspiring. Devastating and hopeful. Unforgettable.

Pagina's: 320, Hardcover, Notion Press