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Aman, Naseema and Ganeshan’s only son, goes missing. He returns six years later but is killed in a bus accident. As Naseema takes refuge in spirituality, Ganeshan discovers his son through poems he left behind. One day, the police show up at their door with a clue that connects Ganeshan to Vijay, a young boy who is beaten to death by the wardens of Ashaniketan, a notorious children’s home, from where he tried to escape. Ganeshan launches an investigation of his own and ropes in his friends Cawasji and Rishi for help, only to discover that the boy was not Vijay. Another boy disappeared from the orphanage, but no one noticed.

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Anand is the pseudonym of P. Sachidanandan, a Malayalam writer and thinker. A number of his books have been translated into English, including Govardhan’s Travels (2006) and The Book of Destruction (2012). He is the recipient of the 1997 Sahitya Akademi Award and three Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards for story, novel and scholarly literature in 1981, 1985 and 1994, respectively. Chetana Sachidanandan is a biologist and scientist at CSIR-IGIB in Delhi. Her translation of Anand’s Malayalam novel Samharathinte Pustakam as The Book of Destruction was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2014.

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