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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Books India Pvt, The Limited

ISBN-100143416332

ISBN-139780143416333

eBay Product ID (ePID)211933595

Product Key Features

Book TitleGoat Days

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicSmall Town & Rural, General

GenreFiction

AuthorBenyamin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight5.5 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-339467

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal894.81263

SynopsisA simple and moving story about one of the great human concerns of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: migration in search of a better life! Najeebs dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his 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 the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Goat Days was published to acclaim in Malayalam and became a bestseller. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamins wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeebs life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation., Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his 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 the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Goat Days was published to acclaim in Malayalam and became a bestseller. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamin's wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation., A simple and moving story about one of the great human concerns of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: migration in search of a better life Najeebs dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his 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 the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Goat Days was published to acclaim in Malayalam and became a bestseller. One of the brilliant new talents of Malayalam literature, Benyamins wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeebs life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation.

LC Classification NumberMLCS 2012/01554 (P)