Goat Days by Benyamin

Goat Days by Benyamin

In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to send some back home. One day, he finally achieves this 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 his loving family and of the lush, verdant landscape of his village haunt Najeeb, whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man is forced to contrive a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison.

An instant bestseller in India, Goat Days is available for the first time in English, translated by Joseph Koyippally. Benyamin is a brilliant new talent of Malayalam literature and his wry and tender telling transforms the strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation.

Benyamin has lived in Bahrain since 1992. His short story collection Euthanasia won the first award of the Abu Dhabi Malayalam Samajam. His novel Aadu Jeevitham (A Goats Life) won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for 2009. Joseph Koyipally is an associate professor in comparative literature at the Central University of Kerala.

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ISBN 13	9780143416333
ISBN 10	0143416332
Title	Goat Days
Author	Benyamin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House India
Year published	2012-07-17
Number of pages	264
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