A01=S. Hareesh
Author_S. Hareesh
betrayals and revolutions
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Category=FYT
contemporary Indian fiction
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Kerala's history
republic of coups
speculative history
Product details
- ISBN 9789369891559
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 140 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
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On 17 August 1947, the kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor declares itself a free nation, refusing to join India. In the years that follow, it becomes a republic of coups, betrayals and revolutions - chronicled by a shadowy informant known as the CID.Through his eyes, S. Hareesh reimagines Kerala's history as an alternate world where the lines between fact and fiction, faith and power, sanity and madness blur beyond recognition. At once speculative history and sly metafiction, August 17 explores how nations are built - and undone - by the stories they choose to believe.
S. Hareesh is the author of two novels and three short story collections. His novel Meesha won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalar Award and the Deshabhimani Award; and its English translation Moustache (translated by Jayasree Kalathil) won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature Jayasree Kalathil won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature. His short story collections include 'Adam', which received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
