Author: Giriraj KishoreTranslator(s)/ Editors(s): M. GnanamPublisher: Sahitya AkademiYear: 2000Language: TamilPages: 580ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126008245
Description
A Sahitya Akademi award winner, this novel is set in the feudal setting of the rural western Uttar Pradesh, and straddles a period which has as its pivotal the attainment of political freedom. The novel ends by placing a big question mark on the values resurrected by a new political class.This novel is about the destiny, which changes but does not change. As in a game of chess, the destiny is pre-defined: only the pieces that undergo that destiny keep changing.