This is the much-acclaimed first novel by one of India's greatest living writers, translated 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. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace. 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 wuality 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...

Legends of Khasak

Literature & Fiction

O.V. Vijayan

Literary

Penguin books.India

A superb collection of fiction from one of indias greatest living writers some of the stories included in this collection are: -the legends of khasak -the saga of dharmapuri -the infinity of grace ov vijayan is one of the most brilliant and original of the contemporary indian authors his fiction, written in malayalam, is complex and poetic, a sumptuous blend of myth, dark humour, eroticism, mystical insights and a uniquely indian brand of magic realism this collection brings together for the first time all four of vijayans books translated into english so far in his much-acclaimed first novel the legends of khasak, ravi, a schoolteacher, arrives in the remote village of khasak and is gradually engulfed by the dreams and fables of that ancient land in the controversial political allegory the saga of dharmapuri, the tyrannical president of dharmapuri and siddhaartha, a travelling mystic and messiah, engage in an unending symbolic battle in the award-winning the infinity of grace, kunjunni, a journalist, goes to calcutta to cover the bangladesh war, and attempts to reconnect with his estranged wife and daughter who live there through the personal trauma that follows, he arrives at a transcendental understanding of life and the harmony implicit in apparently chaotic events the final section of this volume comprises twenty-one short storieswhich include classics such as after the hanging, oil, wind flowers, anachronisms and the foetus together, they bear testimony to vijayans skills as an unusually innovative and evocative writer of romances, parables and tales of the supernatural a definitive collection, selected fiction is like a good piece of halwa youll never want it to end and by the time youre through with it you will be a member of the vijayan fan club the week

Selected Fiction

Penguin

Die Legenden von Khasak.

Insel-Verlag

Latest News on mobile: sms NEWS Ravi, a student of astrophysics and a great visionary, is a teacher in an informal education centre in Khasak. The novel is about Ravi's journey, which starts at Swami Bodhananda's ashram. When the bus stops at the last stop at Kooman Kavu, he gets down. He does not feel that he is coming there for the first time. The novel ends when Ravi's temporary stop at Kooman Kavu ends, and he is waiting for the bus to come. It is raining and there is a smile on his face. He provokes a snake to bite his feet, and slowly begins his next journey to other realm. What a journey it was for Ravi and many, many young men and women who also travelled with him searching for their 'selves'. It was through the journey Ravi undertook that he got answers to many of the questions that cropped up in his adolescent mind. Vijayan needed only that one book, Khasakinte Ithihasam, to make him a legend in Malayalam literature. It was read and re-read by people, printed and re-printed several times; it has sold the maximum number of copies ever, and has been discussed at many forums. And still, the reader finds a new dimension to it every time he/she reads it.

Khasakkinte itihasam (Malayalam Edition)

D.C Books/Kottayam

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