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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE IS PROUD TO PUBLISH ANTI-CLOCK, WINNER OF THE O.V. VIJAYAN AWARD AND THIKKURISSI AWARD
‘James is very inventive and very imaginative with a great sense of humour. There is a sort of eccentric genius animating the story’ JURY, JCB PRIZE FOR LITERTURE
‘A philosophical novel that discusses the mysterious problems of life and death’ BENYAMIN
‘”Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.” V.J. James’s novel Anti-Clock has given an extremely creative twist to these words by Karl Marx’ O.V. VIJAYAN PRIZE
Hendri, the coffin maker, has one goal in life: to see the dead body of his nemesis Satan Loppo being lowered into the coffin he has painstakingly carved. For it was Loppo who defiled his beloved Beatrice, and let loose his hellhound Hitler upon Hendri, giving him a permanent limp.
From inside his coffin shop, Hendri watches the world go by even as he prepares to deliver justice upon Loppo. He is confronted by the son of his best friend becoming enamoured with Loppo’s wealth, Loppo’s evil designs towards the hills of Aadi Nadu, and his own Christian guilt that regularly comes to haunt him. Until he meets Pundit, a 112-year-old watchmaker who was part of Bose’s Indian National Army and is building an ‘Anti-Clock‘, which can turn back time. When Loppo too hears of the Anti-Clock and desires to possess it, the inevitable battle becomes a reality.
Imprint: Vintage Books
Published: Jun/2021
ISBN: 9780143457718
Length : 304 Pages
MRP : ₹599.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published: Apr/2023
ISBN: 9789357080217
Run time : 781 mins
Imprint: Vintage Books
Published: Jun/2021
ISBN:
Length : 304 Pages
MRP : ₹599.00
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE IS PROUD TO PUBLISH ANTI-CLOCK, WINNER OF THE O.V. VIJAYAN AWARD AND THIKKURISSI AWARD
‘James is very inventive and very imaginative with a great sense of humour. There is a sort of eccentric genius animating the story’ JURY, JCB PRIZE FOR LITERTURE
‘A philosophical novel that discusses the mysterious problems of life and death’ BENYAMIN
‘”Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.” V.J. James’s novel Anti-Clock has given an extremely creative twist to these words by Karl Marx’ O.V. VIJAYAN PRIZE
Hendri, the coffin maker, has one goal in life: to see the dead body of his nemesis Satan Loppo being lowered into the coffin he has painstakingly carved. For it was Loppo who defiled his beloved Beatrice, and let loose his hellhound Hitler upon Hendri, giving him a permanent limp.
From inside his coffin shop, Hendri watches the world go by even as he prepares to deliver justice upon Loppo. He is confronted by the son of his best friend becoming enamoured with Loppo’s wealth, Loppo’s evil designs towards the hills of Aadi Nadu, and his own Christian guilt that regularly comes to haunt him. Until he meets Pundit, a 112-year-old watchmaker who was part of Bose’s Indian National Army and is building an ‘Anti-Clock‘, which can turn back time. When Loppo too hears of the Anti-Clock and desires to possess it, the inevitable battle becomes a reality.
V.J. JAMES writes in Malayalam. Born and brought up in Changanacherry, Kerala, he currently resides in Thiruvananthapuram. An engineer by profession, he worked at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. The English translation of Corashasthram, titled Chorashastra, was shortlisted for the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. The English translation of Anti-Clock was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2021 and longlisted for PFC-VoW Book Award 2022.
MINISTHY S. is an IAS officer working in the Uttar Pradesh cadre. She translates between three languages: Malayalam, English and Hindi. She has translated three novels by V.J. James: Anti Clock, which was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2021, Nireeswaran and Dattapaharam, all published by Penguin Random House India.