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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{italic title}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Ayussinte Pusthakam&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (transl. The Book of Passing Shadows) ({{lang-ml|ആയുസ്സിന്റെ പുസ്തകം}}) is a well-known Indian [[Malayalam language]] novel by [[C. V. Balakrishnan]].&lt;ref name=&quot;Book of life&quot;/&gt; The novel was adapted into an experimental play by [[Suveeran]].&lt;ref&gt;[https://web.archive.org/web/20100818040800/http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/26/stories/2009122652680300.htm A searing exploration of sin]. The Hindu, 26 December 2009.&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;[https://web.archive.org/web/20080523020720/http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/08/stories/2008050850550200.htm Fix a date with theatre]. The Hindu, 28 May 2008.&lt;/ref&gt; The play received [[Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi]] Award of 2008, and participated in several international festivals.<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Balakrishnan began writing this novel when he moved to [[Calcutta]] in late-1970s. An old edition of the [[Bible]] at St. Paul&#039;s Cathedral in Calcutta triggered the book in him. It took him three years to complete the novel. Says the author: &quot;All the characters and villages of Christian settlers were in my mind long before I began thinking about writing &#039;&#039;Ayussinte Pusthakam&#039;&#039;. The characters are based on people I met during my course as a school teacher in a village in Kasaragod. I wrote &#039;&#039;Ayussinte Pusthakam&#039;&#039; at a time when I was going through an emotionally difficult period; my relation with my father was strained and I was feeling very lonely. &#039;&#039;Ayussinte Pusthakam&#039;&#039; is about loneliness. The book is also about sin and sadness, written in a style and language that have been judiciously borrowed from The Bible.&quot; The protagonist in this novel is Yohannan, and the plot revolves around his ambiguities concerning sexual desire.&lt;ref name=&quot;Book of life&quot;&gt;[https://web.archive.org/web/20130720072910/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/05/16/stories/2008051650140300.htm &quot;Book of life&quot;]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:2009 Indian novels]]<br /> [[Category:Indian plays]]<br /> [[Category:Malayalam novels]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{2000s-novel-stub}}<br /> {{2000s-play-stub}}</div>

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