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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 in Kerala. 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 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, The Legends of Khasak, O.V. Vijayan's much-acclaimed first novel, translated into English by the author, is an extraordinary achievement
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4.6
43 reviews
vineeth s kumar
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December 24, 2019
This is a difficult book. Not the translated version, but the original one. Dialects used are northern Palakkadan malayalam which i find hard to grasp is the reason i read the book in English and that is how i found the magic they all talk about
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Roshan Shankar
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February 3, 2017
I read the English version after hearing a lot about the original Malayalam one. I was skeptical but this book is amazing. It brings the land and it's people to life
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Shajeer TV
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July 7, 2013
I'm happy to get this book in english. I have been trying to convince my non-Malayalee friends to read a book like this.
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