Naalukettu: The House Around the Courtyard is the story of a young boy, Appunni, set in a matrilineal Nair joint family (a taravad) in the author's native village, Kudallur. Fascinated with accounts of the prestigious Naalukettu taravad from which his mother was expelled, Appunni visits the house only to be despised and rejected by all. Appunni grows up to earn enough money and returns to buy his ancestral home, but his victory soon turns into ashes when his father's murderer turns out to be the same man who was the only sympathetic adult in Appunni's lonely teenage years.

Naalukeetu: The House Around the Courtyard. a Novel trans. from Malayalam

Literature & Fiction

M.T.Vasudevan Nair

Contemporary

Oxford University Press

Novel. translated from Maalayalam by PK Ravindranath. based on a recreation of the Mahabharata.

Second Turn

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Randamoozham is the masterpiece of Jnanpith winning writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair. It was translated into English as Second Turn in 1997. M. T. Vasudevan Nair won Vayalar Award, given for the best literary work in Malayalam, for the novel in 1985. Later, in the year 1995, Mr. Nair was awarded the highest literary award in India, Jnanpith Award, for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature. The novel is set as a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata, from the view of Bhima, the second Pandava.</p>

Randamoozham

Current Books

Naalukettu

Kaalam

Orient BlackSwan Pvt. Ltd.

This is a collection of the finest stories of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, available for the first time in English translation. Ordinary middle class lives and sufferings of northern Kerala have seldom been so engagingly told as in Nair's fiction.

Kuttiedathi and Other Stories (English and Malayalam Edition)

Literary

Orient Blackswan

This hardback omnibus edition collects three of M. T. Vasudevan Nair s previously published works Mist and The Soul of Darkness, Kaalam and Kuttiedathi and Other Stories. The volume features an introduction to M. T. Vasudevan Nair s work by P. P. Raveendran, an eminent academic and a scholar of Malayalam literature. Mist and The Soul of Darkness are translationsof M. T. Vasudevan Nair s highly-acclaimed novellas, Manhu and Irutinde Atmavu. In the Mist, set at a hill-station resort, the author narrates the story of Vimala, a school teacher who continues to wait for her beloved Sudhir, with whom she once shared a passionate affair filled with promises. The Soul of Darkness, on the other hand speaks ofVelayudhan, a young man regarded by his family as not normal and is thus treated abominably, tortured and beaten. Though his cousin Ammakutty really cares for him, she is helpless and cannot do much to save him. In both stories, Nair voices through mists of memories and emotions, some lost hopes and evocative experiences. The narratives are deeply touching, dramatic and realistic. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling matrilineal tarawad system of the Nairs in Kerala with its manifold conflicts and problems, Kaalam is the story of Sethumadhavan Nair who starts out as an ambitious and confident adolescent -- but in his journey towards adulthood, where material and social success go hand in hand, he is faced with an overwhelming sense of disillusionment. In its revelations, the story is beautifully adorned with the emotional experiences of the protagonist, which is also reflective of MT s own childhood in many ways. Kuttiedathi and other stories is a collection of the finest stories of M. T. Vasudevan Nair that encompasses the ordinary middle class lives and sufferings of people in northern Kerala. Nair s engaging style of storytelling is touching throughout. If the lead story Kuttiedathi mixes tragic memory and domestic martyrdom, When the Doors of Heaven Open plays out another life upon which centre a group of lives, all selfish, caring and indifferent by turns. In Insight however, strange and unfathomable bonds of passion come up as the main theme. These are little tragedies of the soul told with a finesse characteristic of Nair s profound, yet minimalist sense of expression.

Writings of M. T. Vasudevan Nair

Translators:Gita Krishnankutty

V. Abdulla

Ninte Ormakku

Dc Books

Pages: 354 (9 B/W Illustrations)From back of the bookWriter and filmmaker M.T. Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT, is one of the most illustrious cultural icons of modern Kerala. Chronicling the decadence of a magnificent and uninterrupted agrarian civilization in the lush county side of central Kerala, his novels and short stories won him the Juanpith and several central and state Sahitya Akademi awards. MTs work as screenwriter and director is Indian cinema at its finest. To readers in English this book of memories and stories offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a literary master who recollects the people, places and ideas that inspired his stories. Featured in this collection are anecdotes, accounts of journeys, a homage, meditations on the literary craft, personal photographs and such classic stories as The Soul of Darkness and Elder Sister Oppol. About the AuthorM.T. Vasudevan Nair was born on 15 July 1933 in Kudallur village in Kerala and was the youngest of four brothers. He began to rite very early in the life, and his short story Valarthumrigangal, written while he was a student at Victoria College, Palakkad, won the first prize in the World Short Story Competition conducted by the New York Herald Tribune. He went on the win several literary awards, including the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kaalam (1970); three Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards: one for the novel Naalukettu (1959), the second for the play Gopuranadayil (1978) and the third for the short story Swargam Thurakkunna Samayam (1981). He was given the prestigious Jnanpith Award in 1995. Vasu

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