Mukundan nandakumar (10 risultati)

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Condizione: New. pp. 328.

Condizione: New. pp. 328.

Condizione: New. pp. 328.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9789360455750 N.A.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. A NOVEL THAT GENTLY BUT RELENTLESSLY EXPLORES THE CONTROVERSIAL AND COMPLEX ISSUE OF DEATH BY CHOICE. When seventy-year-old Unnikrishnan calls a press conference to announce the date of his death, he is disappointed at the apathy with which the news is met. It has been many years since he fled his home and village, and nobody remembers the sensational success of his first novel, set in the time of the Malabar Rebellion of 1921, but he finds it hard to accept the utter lack of interest in his announcement or the reason for it. Until young Paru, rookie journalist for the local daily, turns up on his doorstep, despatched by her editor to unearth what she can of his story. What happened to drive Unnikrishnan away from his family and friends? What was he doing in those missing decades? And how is he going to meet his endwill he kill himself, and if so, how and why? These are the questions Paru puts to him over and over again, pleading, cajoling, threatening, but it will take a lot more to get the stubborn old man to reveal the truth. If he ever will. A remarkable story about human suffering and transformation, this new novel by the award-winning writertranslator duo will have you questioning the most fundamental aspects of lifeand death.…

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Soft cover. Condizione: New. 'A gorgeous portrait of the lives of Malayali migrants in New Delhi during a turbulent period of India's history. Simultaneously nostalgic and unflinching, evocative and savage, Delhi: A Soliloquy does the impossible, and makes me want to visit New Delhi again. Mukundan is a writer of immense power and refinement.'Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger It is the 1960s. Delhi is a city of refugees and dire poverty. The Malayali community is just beginning to lay down roots, and the government offices at Central Secretariat, as well as hospitals across the city, are infused with Malayali-ness. This is the Delhi young Sahadevan makes his home, with the help of Shreedharanunni, committed trade union leader and lover of all things Chinese. Then, unexpectedly, China declares war on India. In a moment, all is split asunder, including Shreedharanunni's family. Their battle to survive is mirrored in the lives of many others: firebrand journalist Kunhikrishnan and his wife Lalitha; maverick artist Vasu; call girl and inveterate romantic Rosily; JNU student and activist Janakikutty. As India tumbles from one crisis to anotherthe Indo-Pak War, the refugee influx of the 1970s, the Emergency and its excesses, the riots of 1984Sahadevan is everywhere, walking, soliloquising and aching to capture it all, the adversities and the happiness. Hailed as a contemporary classic in Malayalam, this is a masterful novel about ordinary people whose lives and stories have leached into the very soil and memories of Delhi.…

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