The Golden Stag 

The first novel of author Sivasundari Bose begins in rural and small-town Tamil Nadu. Spanning five generations of a Tamil family, it is the century-long tale of the relentless duel between man and his circumstances.
Starting with Mayan, a poor toddy-tapper, in a seaside hamlet in 1900, the novel highlights the lives of six men who are the successive links in a family chain, till we meet Vasan, a successful software professional living in New York in 2001, working at the World Trade Centre towards his dream of founding another Silicon Valley back home on the banks of the Kaveri.
Simply told, the narrative is highly expressive and succeeds in conveying the deepest of emotions and human aspirations. This is a saga of the quest for ‘The Golden Stag’ of Tagore’s poem — the quest for change and the achievement of better things in life, of freedom from want, freedom to love, freedom to grow and to reach for success.
From generation to generation the sphere, not only of action, but also of consciousness and attitude, expands in widening circles from those of an obscure hamlet in the deep south of the Indian peninsula through those of the district headquarter towns, the state capital, and the national capital, until, by the end of the novel, a world view appropriate to the 21st century has evolved.