Category: Fiction
Publisher: Westland Books (forthcoming)
Rights: Indian and international translation rights available (excluding Malayalam), Dramatization rights available
Unnikrishnan, a seventy-year-old man, announces to the world that he will die on the sixteenth of the following month. Asked why he is committing suicide, he says he has no intention of killing himself. Everybody is intrigued.
Unnikrishnan was a writer. His debut novel Digambar is a big success, but he is unable to write his second novel, enveloped by fear psychosis.
The inability to write turns Unnikrishnan into a pathetic figure. He loses interest in everything and disappears. Many, many years later, he comes back, as an old man. He has forgotten that he was a novelist. The urge to write has died down forever. He just wants to live a peaceful life, until one day, he announces his death.
The journalist Paru tries to find out the reason for his imminent death. She shadows him. She provokes him, seduces him, but he never reveals anything.
Where was he all these years? What was he doing? Why is he dying on the sixteenth on the following month?
The author: M Mukundan
The translator: Nandakumar K