Daivamakkal

Children of God
Novel By Sarah Thomas translated into English by Sosanna Kuruvilla
CSS Books Thiruvalla, Kerala
Pages: 362 Price: INR 250
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BHAVANI CHEERATH writes...

Sara Thomas' works dwell on a world that is growing distant, but not irrelevant to us as human beings. In Daivamakkal too, we find the undercurrents of human sensitivities.

The conflict continues between human beings on discriminations of different kinds-the rich vs the poor, the whites vs the blacks, man vs woman- the list is long. Here she draws our attention to those forms who were not considered as human beings who felt the same way as the high born.

Kunjikannan in the novel has his dreams. So does Kunjappi who takes a new name, Sethumadhavan, to erase the tainted past that follows him. What do her characters seek.
The feeling is palpable-a place under the sun is predetermined - how does one shed this yoke. Kunjikannan, knows he must, and has identified his path, the one less travelled. While he moves on, he takes us along the highs and lows of a a human being's search for identity.

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