![]() Murugan stated in an interview with The Hindu that there was no documentary evidence relating to the custom and that details about it were passed on orally. The existence of such a practice has been a subject of dispute. In the course of his research, he came across a societal practice that existed in the past to deal with childlessness, which he decided to include in the book. In 2005, Murugan was awarded a grant by the India Foundation for the Arts to do the background research for the novel. ![]() ![]() The original name of the novel comes from the word Madhorubaagan, the Tamil name for the androgynous form of Lord Shiva in Hindu mythology. ![]() The novel is set in the Tiruchengode town in Tamil Nadu, from which Murugan hails, and its main characters in the book belong to the Kongu Vellalar Gounder caste, which he himself belongs to. The idea for writing the novel came to Murugan on witnessing couples around him suffer due to the inability to have a child. Set during the colonial era in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu in India, it deals with the social stigma that a married couple faces due to their childlessness, and the lengths they go to conceive. Initially published by Kalachuvadu Publications in 2010, it was later translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan and published in 2013 in India by Penguin Books, and in 2018 in the US by Grove Atlantic. ![]() One Part Woman ( Tamil: pronounced ) is a Tamil novel written by Indian author Perumal Murugan. ![]()
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