Description: A one-line suicide note left by a total stranger - small-time writer Avinash Suvarna - first intrigues and then reveals to young journalist Laya Thomas what it means to experience fear and abandon at once. It stirs her smouldering spirit and brings her face to face with the mysteries of living and the travails of creating one's masterp...
Brief description: Rizio Yohannan Raj has written two novels in Malayalam - Avinasom and Yatrikom. She has translated into English many generations of 20th century Malayalam writers, from Kumaran Asan to Anwar Ali, and was a long-time associate of the Indo-Swedish translation project. Her poetry collections include Eunuch and Naked by the Sabarmati and Other Guna Poems.