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999			_c295571 _d295571
020			_a9780143063674
082			_a894.81237 VIJ-L
100			_a O V Vijayan
245			_aThe Legends of Khasak
260			_bPenguin Books _c1994
300			_a208p.
520			_aA 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			_a India -- Fiction.
942			_cBK