Benyamin

أيام الماعز

അക്കപ്പോരിന്റെ ഇരുപത് നസ്രാണിവർഷങ്ങൾ | Akkapporinte Irupathu Nasrani Varshangal

Tharakan's Grandhavari

ഇ എം എസും പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയും | EMSum Penkuttiyum

മഞ്ഞവെയിൽ മരണങ്ങൾ

ഒരെഴുത്തുകാരന്]റെ സര്]ഗ്ഗാത്മകമായ സഞ്ചാരങ്ങളെ പരിപോഷിപ്പിക്കാനെത്തുന്ന നിരീക്ഷണ ബോധവും അറിവുമാണ് ഈ കൃതി. വായനയും എഴുത്തും യാത്രയും രൂപപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന നീതിബോധത്തിന്]റെ അലകള്] സ്വത്വനാശങ്ങള്]ക്കെതിരെയുള്ള നിലപാടുകളായി മാറുന്നു. മൂല്യങ്ങളുടെ കൈത്തിരികള്] അണഞ്ഞു പോകാതിരിക്കാന്] എഴുത്തുകാരന്] ഇരുകൈകളും ചേര്]ത്ത് പിടിക്കുന്നു. സാഹിത്യം, മതം, ആത്മീയത, പ്രവാസം തുടങ്ങിയ മേഖലകളിലെ നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങള്] ചാരിതാര്]ത്ഥ്യജനകമാണ്. ചിലയിടത്ത് ഒരു കലാപകാരിയാകാനും തയ്യാറാകുന്നു. പുരോഗമനമൂല്യങ്ങളാണ് എഴുത്തുകാരനെ നയിക്കുന്നത്.

Akathe Christhu Purathe Christhu

IRATTAMUKHAMULLA NAGARAM

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 of 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 acclaim 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.

Goat Days

‘One of the best young writers of India’—Indian Express ‘One of the finest contemporary Malayalam writers’—Mint In a café by the seaside, two friends, Christy Andrapper and Jesintha, witness the murder of a young man. When Christy discovers that it was Senthil, his classmate from school, who had been shot, he tries to follow up on the investigation. But the police deny such a crime ever took place. The hospital to which Senthil’s body was delivered insists he died of a heart attack. Christy begins to suspect a conspiracy. Was he caught in the middle of a giant cover-up? How was his powerful family connected with it? As the mystery deepens, the story moves back and forth between the archipelago of Diego Garcia and peninsular India, delving into the very heart of early Christianity in India. After the success and acclaim of Goat Days, Benyamin crafts a clever and absorbing crime-novel-within-a-novel that is dazzlingly inventive and hugely enjoyable.

Yellow Lights of Death

'No matter which story I say is true, you will still believe only the version that you choose to.' A young journalist in Kerala who wakes up to find he's become Gabriel García Márquez... A one-time zookeeper in search of a lost tiger cub in a war-torn Arab city... A man in a Maharashtra village who must keep thieving because of his caste... Featuring JCB Prize-winning author Benyamin's finest short fiction, Márquez, EMS, Gulam and Others brings together people, places, lives and times. Translated brilliantly by Swarup B.R., these stories unravel, with deep sensitivity, the human condition across fault lines of class, caste, colour and country, of illusion and reality. They make you ponder about the world we live in, the people who inhabit it, the borders separating us - and the truths and lies we tell ourselves and others.

Selected Short Stories

Marquez, EMS, Gulam and Others

Mullapooniramulla Pakalukal

ഇരട്ടമുഖമുള്ള നഗരം [Irattamukhamulla Nagaram]

OTTAMARATHANAL

Swarup Trans. B.R.

The best Indian writer of our times -- MOHAMMED HANIF When Midhun is injured in a hit-and-run incident, no one can anticipate that the minor scrapes and wounds he has sustained will suddenly turn fatal. But that is exactly what happens, and after his death, his organs are donated and end up saving several lives. Soon, however, his friends Rithu and Ragesh and his lover Sandhya begin to suspect there is more to the story than meets the eye. As they delve deeper into the chain of events and the people behind the religious fellowship they are all a part of, they discover that answers are hard to come by, justice elusive and closure next to impossible...Following the lives of men and women caught in a web of criminally orchestrated accidents and medically induced comas, Benyamin's latest novel Body and Blood is by turns introspective and thrilling -- a meditation on faith and God that also holds up a mirror to the power and corruption of organized religion.

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