TOMORROW IS ONE MORE DAY

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‘Nagarajan had a glimpse of visions that great souls have not yet seen’—Sundara RamaswamyThis novella by the maverick Tamil prose writer G. Nagarajan centres on one eventful day in the life of a small-scale operator, fix-it man, pimp and procurer, Kandan. It offers a reading of the seamy margins of society and explores time and temporality, human desire and the possibility of love in the harsh and often violent underworld of a small town in Tamil Nadu.

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G. Nagarajan (1929–81) was one of the pioneers of modern Tamil prose and of realistic-existentialist writing in Tamil. Tomorrow Is One More Day is his most importantwork, although he was also the author of some three dozen short stories and two other novellas (one in English). His work and his antinomian, unsettling presence helped to shape the vibrant literary scene in Tamil in the late 1960s and early1970s.THE TRANSLATORSAbbie Ziffren (1942–97) taught in the Department of Religion at George Washington University and was a scholar of modern Tamil literature.A. Julie has worked for many years with the Sisters of Charity, Mother Teresa’s congregation, in Madurai. THE EDITORSDavid Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.S. Ramakrishnan is editor and publisher with Cre-A, a Tamil publishing house in Chennai.