Overview

On 17 August 1947, the kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor declares itself a free nation, refusing to join India. In the years that follow, it becomes a republic of coups, betrayals and revolutions - chronicled by a shadowy informant known as the CID.Through his eyes, S. Hareesh reimagines Kerala's history as an alternate world where the lines between fact and fiction, faith and power, sanity and madness blur beyond recognition. At once speculative history and sly metafiction, August 17 explores how nations are built - and undone - by the stories they choose to believe.

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What if is a tantalizing question for those who are invested in the plot twists of subcontinental history. In S. Hareesh's rich political imagination, that question erupts into a genre-defying, history-smashing novel about a country that didn't happen. Jayasree Kalathil captures the wit and creativity of this novel in her expert translation. Ultimately, this is a novel about the fictional nature of nation states and their borders.' - Shahnaz Habib, author of Airplane Mode, and JCB Prize-winning translator of Jasmine Days

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S. Hareesh is the author of two novels and three short story collections. His novel Meesha won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalar Award and the Deshabhimani Award; and its English translation Moustache (translated by Jayasree Kalathil) won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature Jayasree Kalathil won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature. His short story collections include 'Adam', which received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.

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