Goat Days: Now A Major Motion Picture - Softcover

Benyamin

 
9780143416333: Goat Days: Now A Major Motion Picture

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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.

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Benyamin is an acclaimed author writing in the Malayalam. in 2009, his novel Aadu Jeevitham (Goat Days) won the Kerala Sahitya Akedemi Award. It was translated into English by Joseph Koyyippally and in 2013, it was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. In 2018, benyamin won the JCB Prize for Literature for his novel Mullapoo Niramulla Pakalukal (Jasmine Days), translated into English by Shahnaz Habib.

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