01500nam a22001937a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200210009110000210011224500100013326000430014330000280018636500620021452009720027665000350124870000230128320220420083949.0220418b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789389109894  cAL  aeng  223a820.33bRAMA  aRamakrishnan T D  aAlpha  a New DelhibMacmillan Publishingc2022  a145p.bHBc20.5x13.4cm.  2generala6320b₹467.22c₹d₹599.00e22%f08-03-2022  a‘[T. D. Ramakrishnan] takes the Malayalam novel to new heights and fresh possibilities’ HINDUWhat makes us human?Twelve people accompany an anthropologist to a deserted island, cutting off all relations with the outside world. There, an experiment begins. They are not to use any known languages and must begin anew – to explore and find out if they can achieve in twenty-five years what humanity has achieved over generations. Twenty-five years later, only three of the thirteen have survived. As these three survivors recount their tale, what emerges is a story of humanity returned to its primitive roots, bereft of attachment, and not nearly as utopian as was expected.Award-winning writer T. D. Ramakrishnan’s debut novel, translated for the first time to English, explores through a powerfully imaginative conceit the meaning of relationships, attachments, love, hate and anger. Above all, it seeks to answer the question: what does it mean to be human?  2LiteratureaEnglish Literature  aNair, Priya K; Tr.