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A Preface to Man
മനുഷ്യന് ഒരു ആമുഖം · Manushyanu Oru Aamukham
Subhash Chandran (സുഭാഷ് ചന്ദ്രൻ, born 1972)
Translated by Fathima E.V.
English editions
In EnglishA Preface to Man
Harper Perennial · India · 2016 · Paperback · 480 pages
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Newly widowed, Ann Mary takes out the forty letters Jithendran sent her some twenty-five years before, along with pieces of the novel he never finished. Jithen wasted his gifts at a firm producing toy monkeys that beat drums, yet his letters map out the past of Thachanakkara, an invented village on the Periyar river in central Kerala, and of the Ayyatumpillis, a feudal Nair household followed from Narapilla’s youth through his children and grandchildren. Through them the story moves from Kerala before independence to the decades after the state was formed, taking in caste, religion, love, communism and the slow transformation of the village.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 372 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India, 20th century
- First published
- 2010 by DC Books
- Author's age
- 38 when first published
- ISBN
9788126428397 (original)
9789351773788 (Harper Perennial, India)
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