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ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം | Khasakkinte Ithihasam Paperback | Pages: 164 pages

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Title	:	ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം | Khasakkinte Ithihasam
Author	:	O.V. Vijayan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 164 pages
Published	:	August 1990 by DC Books (first published November 12th 1969)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Classics

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The English language has a word that can aptly summarize this book : Magic . Amidst these pages is sketched a portrait of a place named Khasak. A sleepy hamlet isolated from the relatively bustling town of Palakkadu in northern Kerala is Khasak. Guarded by the brooding & enigmatic palms the little village is inhabited by men & women who stand apart from most of the cliches. To say that I loved the landscape of this tale would be an understatement. Even seven years after my first read, I can think back and listen to the wind moaning, howling or raging among the palm fronds. I can visualise the isolated house by the pond where the female character of Maimuna stayed. I can visualise the village simpleton Appukili wandering the hillsides looking for dragon flies and many such vivid and lively images. Yes, it is profoundly visual and the marks it left on my mind will not be erased for years to come. It is a tale of a journey both in the physical and spiritual self of a man Ravi. Running away from being smothered in shame, he finds refuge in this most unlikely of places and meets human beings beyond his comprehension. The author took 12 years to complete this work and it went on to become a landmark in Malayalam literature. Little wonder though for very few people I know have been left unmoved by the landscape of Khasak. There is another snippet of memory that resurfaced as I was keying in this review. There was an award winning news photographer by the name of Victor George in Kerala. Victor's greatest dream was to capture in his frames the landscape that the author immortalized through his words. Alas, Victor while on an assignment was claimed by a landslide a few years ago. I still wonder how beautiful those images would have been. Peace be to you Victor !

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Original Title:	ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം
ISBN:	8171301266 (ISBN13: 9788171301263)
Edition Language:	Malayalam
Characters:	Ravi, Sivarman Nair, Appukkili, Maimuna, Allappicha Mollakka, khaliyar, Padma
Setting:	Khasak
Literary Awards:	Odakkuzhal Award (1970)

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Enjoyed the read. But I did feel a lot was lost in translation. And some words could be interpreted wrong in the translation; like "oh" in some places could have been "hey". Things like that. However, I really enjoyed the elements of fabulism and the life of villages. The Afterword of how the novel came to be was equally interesting. This is such an important masterpiece in Malayalam literature; so I will definitely be reading it in the original.If you are not familiar with Malayalam and Kerala,

An absolute intense read!so far the best work of surrealistic fiction in malayalam ever done. I'm glad I didn't pick it up any earlier because it was a hard book for me to follow up at the beginning, I had to read some paragraphs and even chapters multiple times, but the magic with this book was, the harder it gets, the more i wanted to understand it better. I must re-read it.loved the ending. It was so dreamy.

Oh god! At last I can picturize the village Khasak and the characters in the novel. When I was reading first time, I am familiar with the Malabar Muslim colloquial language. But I didn't understand the novel. Second time, know little bit of Tamil too, still I couldn't follow the novel, also I thought why the author used such a complicated poetic Malayalam. But I didn't give up. I know the author took 12 years to write this book so I have given a third chance. While reading third time the book

Brilliant! I felt however some things were lost in translation but it's a beautiful read nevertheless. A beautiful book with a magical realism theme. It's sad we don't know much about OV Vijayan. Highly recommended!! I loved the village life and the overall experience of reading it 😊

This one was a major letdown as I had been looking forward to reading this book for 3 years or more, ever since I came to know of its significance in the malayalam literary scene. Even got a mint new malayalam paperback which unfortunately I couldn't read due to the different dialect used which was too much for a person not much used to reading or speaking malayalam. Switched over to the English book, and still the story failed to charm me. It has been described as Magical Realism, but other

Hype is usually the death of enjoyment. I have found this to be true of so many things; from movies to places to food to books. And it is fiction that has let me down more than any other. Not that it is anybodys fault. Such is the variety in themes, context, treatment etc in world fiction that somebody elses Awesome can very well become your Pathetic. Some novels do manage to match the hype and hold its own. And then there are the truly rare gems. Ones that are so good, that it transports you to

We have all had those times when after turning the last page of a book, we sit back and wonder what cosmic serendipity had lead us to this book, and allowed us to read the outcome of thoughts from a person we wish was from a world around us. O. V. Vijayan, sacked from a college where he taught, joined his family in a backward village of Thasarak, Kerala where his sister had got a teaching assignment. It was here that he found himself surrounded by the people who lived with their own measure of