Sunday book pick: Ari Gautier’s ‘The Thinnai’ is a rambunctious novel about Pondicherry’s ‘natives’

Sunday book pick: Ari Gautier’s ‘The Thinnai’ is a rambunctious novel about Pondicherry’s ‘natives’

[Scroll.in] - 02/16/2025

The novel was first published in French as ‘Le Thinnai’ in 2017. The English translation by Blake Smith was published in 2021.



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