Description: "A new translation of the fifth-century Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love"--
Review Quotes: "To translate even a single kural couplet, bewitching in its rhythm and packed with meaning, is a formidable task. But we now have Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma's translation, without doubt the best ever into English."
--David Shulman, The New York Review of Books
--Kajal Magazine "In the astonishingly fresh and vibrant translations that adorn this book, Tiruvalluvar's voice can now reach the universal audience that so deeply needs its universal wisdom."
--Andrew Harvey, from the Foreword "This translation provides a refreshing remembrance and illustration (without the usual reprimands and dire warnings) of how to be a good steward of the planet and what it means to live a good life--a much-needed map of astonishingly humane guidance and care."
--Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders "[An] exquisite translation . . . To live as the wise Kuṟaḷ advises us to--in a state of chronic, cultivated empathy and in service of others--is indeed to live right and to live well."
--Archana Venkatesan, from the Introduction