01439    a2200169   4500008004100000020001900041100001800060245002600078260003700104300001000141520088200151650001901033650001001052942001201062999001701074952017801091241003b        ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d  a978-0143063674  aO.V., Vijayan  aThe legends of Khasak  aIndia: bPenguin Books, c1994.   a208p.  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 so journeys 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.  aIndia--Fiction  aNovel  cCB2ddc  c48776d48776  00102ddc4070aMAINbMAINcCLd2024-09-26e48g207.01l2m1o823.9 VIJpCL769r2025-03-09 00:00:00s2025-02-07v299.00w2024-09-26yCBzRecommended by Dr. Appasaheb Naikal