Description

The author of the novel Shantinath K. Desai has given a new dimension to Kannada modernist fiction through his last work ‘Om Namo’ the novel, which won Sahitya Akademi award in the year 2000. While telling the story of three generations of a Jain family, the book also succeeds in investigating and critiquing contemporaneity. A deep reflection on faith, the contradiction between belief and practice, and the inevitability of individual freedom. All these examined in this novel through complex situation and full blooded characters.