ISBN 9789350291627|Paperback|384 pages|2011|HarperCollins
This book uses the metaphor of water to describe the pain caused by the disruption of man's intimate relationship with nature. It is an eco-spiritual search for light and life in a world inching towards dystopia.
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An eco-spiritual search for light and life in a world inching towards dystopia Gift in Green, written originally in Malayalam, is a tantalizingly unconventional narrative that explores, on multiple levels, the pain and poetry that eventuate from the disruption of the intimate relationship between a people and their life-world, using water (the ‘water-life’ of the people of Aathi) as the overarching metaphor that mirrors the degradation of the society. Between the polarities of attachment and abandonment, darkness and light, predatory progress and the sheer will to survive, unfolds the saga of a people confronted by the behemoth of progress driven by Kumaran,who seeks to abandon water-life, threatening its very existence. But such is the author’s faith in the resilience of life and nature and her belief in the futility of trying to control something as fluid and eternal as water-life that what promises to be the end is also the hope of a new beginning. This is the first instance in Indian literary history of a novel in a regional language being translated and published concurrently in English.
Author:
Aravind Mallagatti
ISBN:
9789350291627
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
384
Year of Publication:
2011
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
The author is an eminent Malayali author and social activist. All her novels have been well received and won prestigious state-level awards. Gift in Green -- the translation of her previous novel, Aathi -- was published concurrently with the Malayalam original.
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