

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Blue Eclipse is a collection of fourteen
stories spanning George Varghese Kakanadan^s career that let us catch a glimpse
of the brilliance of one of the flagbearers of modernist Malayalam literature.
If ^Blue Eclipse^ is an untrammeled exploration of surreal ideas, ^Timeworn^
is a simple tale of nostalgia that takes shape on a retired school teacher^s
last day of life. Through an artist torn between his search for enlightenment
and the magic of his model^s physical beauty, ^Sreechakram^ reflects on the
Hindu philosophies of dualism and non-duality, while ^Madness^ and ^Sunshine
talk about sex and the power of women in completely different circumstances. At
once powerful and beautiful, morose and terrifying, liberating and suffocating,
this is a collection to savor. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Kakanadan</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">
was born on 23 April 1935, Thiruvalla. He was an Indian short story writer and
novelist in the Malayalam language. His works made a break from the neo-realism
that dominated Malayalam literature through the 1950s and 1960s. He died on 19
October 2011, Kollam.</span></p>

