Legends of Khasak

Legends of Khasak
by O.V. Vijayan

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Author: O.V. Vijayan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-08
ISBN: 014015647X
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Penguin Books

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Book Review: One of the best novels from India.
Summary: 5 Stars

Vijayan is a highly acclaimed author in India but unfortunately, not as well known as Vikram Seth or Salman Rushdie are to the western world. Frankly I am surprised to find the book here.
Set in pre-independent India, this is a story of a small village in Kerala (south India). A short novel, exceptionally well written that brings out the flavour of India. If Vikram Seth's `Suitable Boy' has shaken your faith in good writing, then this novel will prove an antedote.
India's diverse culture makes it very difficult to define `Indian-ness', more so, to the western audience. It is not merely in the erotic art of kamasutra, in the hot spicyness of our cuisine and in the million hues of our fabrics.
`Legends of Khasak' does not have the pyrotechnics of `Midnight's Children'. It is a very simply told tale of love, lust and betrayals embedded in the regularity of everyday life. The lifestyle in different parts of India are so different that this book is bound to present many surprising elements to most Indians.
If the intent to read an Indian author is to understand that part of the world, then this book is one of the very best.

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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...

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