The Legends Of Khasak

A 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.