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Chandran, Subhash

 
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Synopsis

Ann Marie reads fragments of her dead husband's unfinished book, and the many love letters he sent her, and in them the social and political events of the time. As she ponders the writing and the years that the brilliant Jithendran squandered working for a toy company that makes drum-playing monkeys, the narrative gives way to the sweeping saga of a village by the river Periyar. Grappling with issues of equality, love, caste, religion and politics, Thachanakkara is a microcosm of twentieth-century Kerala. Told through the history of three generations of a feudal Nair family, this sprawling story is reminiscent of the craft of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude and has the scale of Sunil Gangopadhyay's Those Days. A Preface to Man is an artistic meditation on human existence and is a contemporary classic.

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À propos de l?auteur

Subhash Chandran has won numerous awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award, Odakkuzhal Award and Vayalar literary prize. He is best known for his novel Manushyanu Oru Amukham (A Preface to Man), which remains one of the best-selling books in Malayalam. Fathima E.V. is a translator and writer based in Kannur.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9353024943 ISBN 13 :  9789353024949
Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2019
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