The novel
ഒരു ഗ്രാമം, ഒരു അധ്യാപകൻ,
ഒരു ഇതിഹാസം.
Ravi, a restless young man, arrives in Khasak, a remote village in Palakkad, to start a single-teacher school. Around him the village’s legends, faiths, quarrels and dreams slowly unfold. First published in 1969, O. V. Vijayan’s novel changed Malayalam fiction for good; his own English version, The Legends of Khasak, followed in 1994.
