Goat days / Benyamin ; translated from the Malayalam by Joseph Koyippally.

By:

Benyamin, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Malayalam Publisher: New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2012Description: 255 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780143416333
0143416332

Uniform titles:

Āṭujīvitaṃ. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

894.81263 BEN/G

LOC classification:

MLCS 2012/01554 (P) PL4718.9.B3485

Summary: "Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and his loving family haunt Najeeb, whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. 'Goat Days' was published to aclaim in Malayalam and became a bestseller. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamin's wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation"--Publisher's description, back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	MES KC LIBRARY ENGLISH	Fiction	894.81263 BEN/G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	GR13R2		42332

Translation of: Aadu jeevitham.

Winner of the Kerala Literary Academy Award in 2009.

"Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and his loving family haunt Najeeb, whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. 'Goat Days' was published to aclaim in Malayalam and became a bestseller. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamin's wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation"--Publisher's description, back cover.

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