Iron Harvest

C P Surendran

ISBN 10: 8186939253 / ISBN 13: 9788186939253

Published by Roli Books, 2006

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An Iron Harvest is based on a true incident. It involves the custodial death of a young engineering student Rajan in 1976 and the long and lonely one man war that his father Echara Warrier waged against the state to wrest justice of a sort and restore honour to his son. When the author started writing the novel two and half years ago Rajan's case was more or less relegated to the wings of Kerala's political stage. But by the time the novel reached proof stage the incident and related police excesses had staged a triumphant if florid return to the spotlight. There are other characters and incidents in this novel that may resemble real life counterparts. Put it down to coincidence or correspondence. 326 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Iron Harvest
• Publisher: Roli Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8186939253
• ISBN 13: 9788186939253
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

John is the young Che Guevara-like leader of a Maoist revolutionary organization, Red Earth, active in Kerala, India. John's classmate, Abe, has gone missing in police custody, though he is a political innocent. John suspects Abe has been tortured to death. Death in police custody was a regular feature of the dark days of the 19-month Emergency, which the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared in a fit of pure paranoia in June 1975, the year of the story. Not able to withstand the brute force of the State, Red Earth begins to disintegrate. But for John, the unlikely revolution he is working at has already taken on the intimate emotional intensity of a vendetta. The fast-paced action of "An Iron Harvest" revolves in measured grooves around the characters of John, Sebastian, Abe's elderly father, and the sadistic, sexually troubled Deputy Inspector General of Police, Raman, a killer without a conscience. In bare terms, this is the story of one death and three people. "An Iron Harvest" is based on a real life incident.