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| Author | M. Mukundan |
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| Original title | Kesavante Vilapangal |
| Translator | A. J. Thomas |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | DC Books,Rupa & Co. |
Publication date | 1999 (1999) |
| Publication place | India |
Published in English | 2006 (2006) |
| Awards | Vayalar Award Crossword Book Award |
Kesavan's Lamentations (original title:Kesavante Vilapangal) is a 1999Malayalam novel written byM. Mukundan.[1] The novel tells the story of a writer Kesavan who writes a novel on a child named Appukkuttan who grows under the influence ofE. M. S. Namboodiripad.
Written as astory within a story, the book recreates the internal and external chaos involved in the process of Kesavan's writing, as he pens his book,Appukkuttan's Lamentations. The story deals with the life and death of Kesavan as well as with the life and obsessions of the protagonist of Kesavan's book, the boy called Appukkuttan, who deifiesE. M. S. Namboodiripad, under whose portrait's gaze he slept and woke as a child. The narrative travels back and forth between Kesavan and Appukkuttan.
Citation for theCrossword Book Award by H. S. Shiva Prakash, Subashree Krishnaswamy andDilip Kumar:
