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| name = Oru Desathinte Katha<br />
| title_orig = ഒരു ദേശത്തിന്റെ കഥ<br />
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| author = [[S. K. Pottekkatt]]<br />
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| country = India<br />
| language = Malayalam<br />
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| publisher = [[D. C. Books]]<br />
| release_date = 1971<br />
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| pages = 566<br />
| isbn = 978-81-7130-570-4<br />
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'''''Oru Desathinte Katha''''' ({{lang-en|The Story of a Locale}}) is a [[Malayalam]] novel written by [[S. K. Pottekkatt]] in 1971. It sketches the men and women of Athiranippadam, drawing the history of the country while detailing the micro-history of a place.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/08/03/stories/2008080350210500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812173718/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/08/03/stories/2008080350210500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 August 2008|title=Decolonising the land|author=G. S. Jayasree|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=3 August 2008|access-date=11 April 2011}}</ref> It won the [[Kendra Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1972, and the [[Jnanpith Award]] in 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm|title=Kendra Sahitya Academy Awards (Malayalam)|publisher=Public Relations Department, [[Government of Kerala]]|access-date=11 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524212356/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm|archive-date=24 May 2007}}</ref> The story take place in a span of about 55 years. It has a huge canvas of Athiranippadam to North India to Africa and Switzerland. It is a nostalgic novel and an autobiographical stance haunts the reader enormously.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
The story revolves around a boy named Sreedharan who was a resident of the village of Athiranippadam. The story depicts the life of the villagers through the views of ''Sreedharan'' also through the other characters. The novel is set in British India where the protagonist was born and tells the stories of the people around Sreedharan's entire life.<br />
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{{Malayalam Literature |state=collapsed}}<br />
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[[Category:Malayalam novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian autobiographical novels]]<br />
[[Category:1971 novels]]<br />
[[Category:Novels set in India]]<br />
[[Category:Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works]]<br />
[[Category:Jnanpith Award-winning works]]<br />
[[Category:Novels by S. K. Pottekkatt]]<br />
[[Category:DC Books books]]<br />
[[Category:1971 Indian novels]]<br />
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