01951nam a22002177a 4500 20260129114054.0 221230b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789353576028 AL English 23 820.33 HARM S Hareesh 253099 Moustache : A Novel India Harper Collins 2020 xxi,331p PB 21.5x14cm VBI-1675 ₹449.00 ₹ ₹599.00 25% 19-12-2022 " A novel of epic dimensions ... easily among the most accomplished fictional works in Malayalam. K. SATCHIDANANDAN Vavachan is a Pulayan who gets the opportunity to play a policeman with an immense moustache in a musical drama. The character appears in only two scenes and has no dialogue. However, Vavachan s performance, and his moustache, terrify the mostly upper-caste audience, reviving in them memories of characters of Dalit power, such as Ravanan. Afterwards, Vavachan, whose people were traditionally banned from growing facial hair, refuses to shave off his moustache. Endless tales invent and reinvent the legend of his magic moustache in which birds roost, which allows its owner to appear simultaneously in different places and disappear in an instant, which grows as high as the sky and as thick as rainclouds and turn Vavachan into Moustache, a figure of mythic proportions. Set in Kuttanad, a below-sea-level farming region on the south-west coast of Kerala, the novel is as much a story of this land as it is of Vavachan and its other inhabitants. As they navigate the intricate waterscape, stories unfold in which ecology, power dynamics and politics become key themes. Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh s Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance. " English Fiction 67999 Kalathil, Jayasree Tr 67987 ddc BK 226129 226129 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN AL AL 2022-12-27 Vidyarthi Books Bengaluru 560076 449.00 1 820.33 HARM 076307 2026-01-06 11:38:35 2025-12-19 599.00 2022-12-30 BK