The Legends of Khasak (Record no. 295571)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780143063674
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 894.81237 VIJ-L
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name O V Vijayan
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Legends of Khasak
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1994
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 208p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element India -- Fiction.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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