First Comes The Night

First Comes The Night is the English translation of the Tamil short story collection Mudhalil Iravu Varum  by Aadhavan  Sundaram, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987. The stories are noted for their innovative style, refreshing originality of theme and the power of intellectual analysis. The stories deal with the complexities of the middle-class Tamilians' life, probes the predicament of the youth confronting a crisis of identity and seeks to come to terms with the generation gap.