Rajanarayanan, Ki. <br/><br/>
Gopallapuram  

 - New Delhi:  Penguin Books,  2011. 
 - 137 p. ;  pb,  20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Novel. 
<br/><br/> A highway robber murders a pregnant young woman for her jewellery. He is caught and sentenced to death by impalement in Gopallapuram. A community of Telugu speakers migrates to the Tamil country to escape Muslim rule. They transform a barren land, turning it into a fertile, verdant village. A horde of bandits attempts to raid a village but is foiled by the unarmed, inventive villagers. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Awars, Ki. Rajanarayanan weaves legend, myth, history and good old-fashioned storytelling in this wonderful contemporary classic. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143067757 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tamil fiction<br/>Novel<br/>Literature
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>894.8113  / RAJ