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Original title ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ Publication date 1971 ISBN 978-81-7130-570-4 Publisher DC Books | 4.2/5 Pages 566 Originally published 1971 Page count 566 Country India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oru Desathinte Katha (English: The Story of a Locale) is a Malayalam novel written by S. K. Pottekkatt in 1971. It sketches the men and women of Athiranippadam, drawing the history of the country while detailing the micro-history of a place. It won the Kendra Sahitya Academy Award in 1972, and the Jnanpith Award in 1980.The story take place in a span of about 55 years.It has a huge canvas of Athiranippadam to North India to Africa and Switzerland. It is a nostalgic novel and an autobiographical stance haunt the reader enormously.
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