Viramma

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humour and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood, her marriage before puberty, giving birth to twelve children ‘very gently, like stroking a rose’, adult life as an agricultural worker ‘condemned to bake in the sun’, tales of gods and malign forces like Irsi Katteri ‘the foetus-eater’ who cast their shadows over her daily life. Told over ten years to Josiane and ...