Alpha
Author: T D Ramakrishnan, Priya K. Nair
ISBN: 978-9389109894
Price: Rs. 499.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
¹…œ[T. D. Ramakrishnan] takes the Malayalam novel to new heights and fresh possibilities HINDUWhat makes us human?Twelve people accompany an anthropologist to a deserted island, cutting off all relations with the outside world. There, an experiment begins. They are not to use any known languages and must begin anew to explore and find out if they can achieve in twenty-five years what humanity has achieved over generations. Twenty-five years later, only three of the thirteen have survived. As these three survivors recount their tale, what emerges is a story of humanity returned to its primitive roots, bereft of attachment, and not nearly as utopian as was expected.Award-winning writer T. D. Ramakrishnans debut novel, translated for the first time to English, explores through a powerfully imaginative conceit the meaning of relationships, attachments, love, hate and anger. Above all, it seeks to answer the question: what does it mean to be human?
Browse this title within our Fiction & Bestsellers collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 152 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-9389109894.
About the Author
T. D. RAMAKRISHNAN is a novelist, translator and screenwriter. He has won several awards for his work, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and the Vayalar Award. The English translation of his novel Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanyaki was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He served as Chief Controller of the Southern Railways and received the National Award for Outstanding Performance from the Ministry of Railways in 2003. PRIYA K. NAIR is Assistant Professor in English at St Teresa’s College in Kerala. She has previously translated T. D. Ramakrishnan’s novels Francis Itty Cora and Sugandhi Alias Andal Deva Nayaki into English. The latter was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2019. She has also translated Dr B. Umadathan’s autobiography, Dead Men Tell Tales: The Memoir of a Police Surgeon.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-9389109894
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Pan-India Delivery
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What is this book about?
¹…œ[T. D. Ramakrishnan] takes the Malayalam novel to new heights and fresh possibilities HINDUWhat makes us human?Twelve people accompany an anthropologist to a deserted island, cutting off all relations with the outside world. There, an experiment begins. They are not to use any known languages...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Fiction & Bestsellers and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by T D Ramakrishnan, Priya K. Nair.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll be drawn into a bold thought experiment that strips humanity down to its rawest form. As language, society and comfort disappear, this novel asks unsettling questions about love, power and survival. Told through the voices of the last survivors, it’s haunting, intelligent and deeply human. If you enjoy literary fiction that lingers in your mind and challenges how you see civilization, this translated gem will reward you long after the final page.
- Published by Macmillan.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 152.
Catalog Description
¹…œ[T. D. Ramakrishnan] takes the Malayalam novel to new heights and fresh possibilities HINDUWhat makes us human?Twelve people accompany an anthropologist to a deserted island, cutting off all relations with the outside world. There, an experiment begins. They are not to use any known languages and must begin anew to explore and find out if they can achieve in twenty-five years what humanity has achieved over generations. Twenty-five years later, only three of the thirteen have survived. As these three survivors recount their tale, what emerges is a story of humanity returned to its primitive roots, bereft of attachment, and not nearly as utopian as was expected.Award-winning writer T. D....
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