{"product_id":"the-greatest-malayalam-stories-ever-told","title":"The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of fifty brilliant short stories translated from the Malayalam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected and translated by poet, editor, and translator A. J. Thomas, this collection includes established masters such as Karoor Neelakanta Pillai, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Lalithambika Antharjanam, Ponkunnam Varkey, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, S. K. Pottekkatt, Uroob, O. V. Vijayan, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, and Paul Zacharia, as well as accomplished new voices such as N. Prabhakaran, C. V. Balakrishnan, Aymanam John, Chandramathi, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The Farmer’\u003c\/em\u003e by Thakazhi and ‘T\u003cem\u003ehe Speaking Plough\u003c\/em\u003e’ by Varkey deal with the trials and tribulations of village life. In Pilllai’s story ‘\u003cem\u003eWooden Dolls\u003c\/em\u003e’ and Kesadeva’s ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Oath’\u003c\/em\u003e, we encounter the seemingly simple, but intrinsically complex personalities of three rural women characters. In his classic story ‘\u003cem\u003eThe World-renowned Nose\u003c\/em\u003e’, Basheer, the master satirist, resorts to biting satire to expose human vanity. In Antharjanam’s ‘\u003cem\u003eDhirendu Majumdar’s Mother’\u003c\/em\u003e, the mother emerges as the revolutionary heroine of the Partition of 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. ‘\u003cem\u003eHumans and Animals’\u003c\/em\u003e by Nandanar narrates an unbelievably macabre incident from the horrors of Partition. In O. V. Vijayan’s masterpiece, ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Hanging\u003c\/em\u003e’, the reader is drawn into a father’s sorrow over the death of his child. Madhavikkuty in \u003cem\u003e‘Scent of a Bird\u003c\/em\u003e’ draws in bold strokes the existential angst of a modern woman who wishes to make a career for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese and other stories in this collection portray with brilliance and nuance the complex tapestry of the Malayali experience down the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A. J. Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964683644975,"sku":"9789390652761","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9789390652761.jpg?v=1771338417","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-greatest-malayalam-stories-ever-told","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}