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A Preface To Man
by Subhash Chandran
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After years of squandering his creativity, working for a toy company that makes drum-playing monkeys, Jithendran dies rather abruptly, leaving behind some notes on a novel that he had dreamt of writing in his youth. As his wife Ann Marie begins to read the fragments of his unfinished book and the many love letters he had sent her during their courtship, the sweeping saga of a village called Thachanakkara unfolds. Set against the changing socio-cultural fabric of Kerala since the early twentieth century and moving into the first decade of the twenty-first century, it traces the history of mankind through three generations of a feudal Nair family and the people that surround it. With a hundred-odd characters and reminiscent of epic novels like Marquez’s A Hundred Years of Solitude and Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Those Days, A Preface to Man remains a grand tribute to Kerala and also an artistic meditation on human existence itself
About The Author
Born in 1972 at Kadungallor, a real bucolic setting near Alwaye which forms the plot for his first novel Manushyanu Oru Aamukham, Mr Subhash Chandran spent his salad days at St.Alberts College, Maharajas College, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan and Law College. Being a First Rank Post Graduate in Malayalam Literature, from Maharajas College, Ernakulam where he studied with Scholorship from MG University, he joined Law College to pursue studies there, but discontinued to accept the job as a Proof Reader in Mathrubhumi Daily. He has worked as a Casual Announcer in Akasha Vani and also as a Lecturer in a Parallel College. Currently, he is working as Chief Sub Editor in Mathrubhumi, Calicut.
Mr. Subhash Chandran’s debut was through a short story competition conducted by Mathrubhumi Weekly for college students in 1994 and his story Ghadikaarangal Nilakkunna Samayam won the First Prize.Later a collection of his short stories under the same title won the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award by silencing the carping critics and has become the numero uno who wins this award at such an early age. Manushaynu oru aamukham (Novel), Ghadikaarangal Nilakkunna Samayam, Parudeesa Nashtam and Thalpam ( Short Story collections), Madhyeyingane, Kaanunna Nerathu(vignettes) are his major contributions. To his credit a handful of daedal articles in periodicals can also be reckoned but no potboilers at all for sure.
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