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

ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം | Khasakkinte Ithihasam Paperback | Pages: 164 pages

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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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The book was not a mere read but an experience as a whole. Having lived near to the realm where the story has taken place, I could relate to it easily. The book has been in my backlog for a while. I feel a sense of closure after completing it.P.S: Particularly liked the way author talks about theory of evolution by natural selection in one of the chapters.

Gorgeously sensuously written (and translated from Malayalam by the author himself) - dreamy and deep fabulist stories that twine science and fate. Will have to pick up more of his stuff when I can.

I must warn the reader this would be more of a meditation than a review.I picked up Khasak in a bid to repossess some of my cultural legacy as a Malayali. With parents who were nomads and spent more time in Kashmir and Punjab than in Kollam I felt a need to educate myself on my cultural forebears.Khasak is a work which contrary to my expectation was as Indian in essence as Latin American in aesthetics and Arabian in the narration.Time is elliptical in Khasak and the Cartography vague, both are

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.

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 😊

I am happy to have read a decent novel set in India, outside Tamil Nadu, written in the vernacular, and translated, in this case by the author himself, in English. I find this way more authentic than the Indian English authors who take up Indian-India themes for their novels.Ravi studies the big wide universe in his Astrophysics course at college. An incestuous affair evokes intense shame in him and it drives him out of college before graduating. He wanders trying to get over it and lands up in

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.