N. Prabhakaran

Theeyoor Chronicles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A work of historic significance' - BENYAMIN

A journalist goes to Theeyoor - 'the land of fire' - to investigate the unnaturally large number of suicides and disappearances in the city. After completing this project, however, Theeyoor refuses to leave his consciousness, and he decides to write its history.

This history is told through various documents: the writer's notes, the anecdotes told to him while researching the suicides, Wardha Gopalan's book The History of Theeyoor, information provided by a local newspaper agent, personal papers of individuals, as well as some 'incidents' that the journalist himself imagines.

In N. Prabhakaran's masterful hands - and in Jayasree Kalathil's brilliant translation - history, myth, facts, nature, political events, and everyday concerns of ordinary people weave together into a story that is at once local and universal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial India
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789354224379
• Artikelnr.: 61314960

Autorenporträt

N. PRABHAKARAN is a major contemporary writer in Kerala and a pioneer of the post-modern aesthetic turn in Malayalam literature. He has published over forty works of novels, poetry, plays, short story collections, essays and a memoir. He is the recipient of several honours including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award; the EMS Memorial Trust Award; the Vaikom Muhammed Basheer Memorial Trust Award; the Malayatoor Award; the Odakkuzhal Award; and the Muttathu Varky Literary Award for Contributions to Malayalam literature. Diary of a Malayali Madman, translated by Jayasree Kalathil, won the 2019 Crossword Book Award.