Author: O V Vijayan
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN/UPC (if available): 014015647X
Description
The much-acclaimed first novel by one of India's greatest living writers, translated by the author from the original Malayalam into English for the first time.
A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside. Ravi is bewitched and entranced as everything around him - - the villagers, their children whom he teaches in a makeshift school, the elders who see him as a threat; the toddy-tappers, the shamans -- takes on the quality of myth.
And then reality, painful and threatening, begins to intrude on the sojourner's resting place and Ravi begins to understand that there is no escape from the relentless dictates of Karma ...
Often poetic and dark, always complex and rich, this novel is an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement.