01922nam a22002417a 4500 20251208093023.0 220909b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789390122585 AL eng 23 820.33 KUTS Akkineni Kutumbarao 248173 Softly dies a lake Hyderabad Orient Blackswan 2020 xxii,200p PB 21x14cm English 3496 331.50 ₹ 425.00 22% 09-08-2022 An elegy to kolleru, one of India’s largest freshwater lakes located in Andhra Pradesh, akkineni kutumbarao’s novel kolleti jadalu vividly brings alive the villages and people whose lives are woven inseparably with the lake. Swamped by water, this is the precarious life-world of a people in a constant struggle to survive in an environment that is nurturing and bountiful, yet unpredictable and hostile. The story of the lake and the people whose lives and hopes, joys and sorrows depend on it is told through the eyes of five-year-old seen. With dry humour, gentle irony and profound human empathy, kutumbarao details a little-known and rich world, brutally destroyed as the market ultimately triumphs over nature. Softly dies a lake is at once memory, history, tribute, lament, apology and penance; to a childhood, to a lake, to a people, to a vital but lost way of life. The translation by veteran feminist rights activist and writer, Vasanth kannabiran, seamlessly brings to us the world of kolleru in all its transient beauty. This memoir reminds us of ecology mantra—everything is connected—and is a must-read for all lovers of literature and everyone who feels responsible for their only home: the Earth. Indian English Fiction 56961 Indian English Literature 56962 Telugu Tr in English 56963 Vasanth Kannabiran Tr 56965 ddc BK 224546 224546 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2022-08-11 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 331.50 1 820.33 KUTS 075988 2022-12-12 00:00:00 2022-10-13 425.00 2022-09-09 BK