The Book of Destruction

Anand Translated from Malayalam by Chetana Sachidanandan

Penguin Books India

248 pages, R250

From the Crossword Award-winning author of Govardhan’s Travels, a new novel in translation. Murder is committed for its own sake in the three narratives that make up The Book of Destruction. Anand takes the reader on a journey of three stages—the practice of killing, the sacrifice of the victim, and the sacrifice of the sacrificer—before bringing the story of destruction to its finale.