Böcker av Noyal Nadesan

This novel revolves around the social movement of caste in the environment of Tamil Nadu andthe rituals, customs and untouchability it celebrates. In the background of his migration to TamilNadu in the early eighties, the narrator deals with the murders that occurred in the castestratum and examines it in his way. This novel unfolds like an investigation in which puzzlesslowly gets solved.The memories and views of people outside Tamil Nadu about the cultural environment of TamilNadu have been recorded from time to time in modern literature. But it can be said that it is forthe first time a fiction emerged from an outsider dealing with Tamil Nadu's casteism and caste-driven killing as its primary issues.Another thread of the novel travels through the lives of non human beings. The peculiarity ofthis novel is that the stories about animals and birds, their bodies, birth, death, extinction, andtheir lives are fabricated with utmost care.

'Kaanal Desam' is a new novel by writer, doctor Noel Nadesan. A story that happens amidst the three decades of war in Sri Lanka. It talks about historical truths hidden for the sake of war and its ideals. Where historians hesitate to state truths, fiction fills that role. The possibilities of fiction, and the courage to undertake it are utilised in this novel to find a path to the truth.