NAALUKETTU

Naalukettu The House Around the Courtyard is the story of a young boy Appunni set in a matrilineal Nair joint family a taravad in the authors native village Kudallur. Fascinated with accounts of the prestigious Naalukettu taravad from which his mother was expelled Appunni visits the house only to be despised and rejected by all. Appunni grows up to earn enough money and returns to buy his ancestral home but his victory soon turns into ashes when his fathers murderer turns out to be the same man who was the only sympathetic adult in Appunnis lonely teenage years.