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Aadujeevitham (English: The Goat Life) is a 2008 Malayalam-language novel by Indian author Benyamin. Its English version is marketed under the title Goat Days. It is about an abused Malayali migrant worker employed in Saudi Arabia as a goatherd against his will.
The novel is based on real-life events and was a best seller in Kerala. According to media, Benyamin became an "overnight sensation" with the publication of this "hard-hitting story" and is currently one of the top sellers in Malayalam. The original Malayalam version of Goat Days has gone through over 100 reprints.
The novel depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammed, an Indian emigrant going missing in Saudi Arabia. Najeeb's dream was to work in the Persian Gulf region and earn enough money to send back home. But, he achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents into herding goats in the middle of the desert. In the end, Najeeb contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Penguin Books India's introduction describes the novel as "the strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert" and "a universal tale of loneliness and alienation".
The English translation of the novel appeared in the long list of Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and in the short list of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013. It won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel for Benyamin in 2009.
The book is divided into four parts (Prison, Desert, Escape and Refuge).
Najeeb Muhammad, a young man from Arattupuzha in Haripad of the Kerala state, is newly married and dreams of a better work in any of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. After several endeavors, he finally gets an opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia. However, at the King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh he is clueless as what to do next and is taken away by an Arab man who he believes to be his work sponsor. The work sponsor takes him to a cattle farm in the middle of a desert, confirming Najeeb's worst nightmare. The work sponsor hands Najeeb over to the farm supervisor.
Najeeb is then used as a shepherd and is assigned to tend goats, sheep and camels for almost 3+1⁄2 years in the remote deserts of Saudi Arabia. He is forced to do backbreaking work, kept half-hungry and is denied water to wash and suffers unimaginably. The farm's brutal supervisor keeps Najeeb in control with a gun and binoculars and frequently beats him with a belt. And now Najeeb had to manage this new fate without the bare human essentials.
In a country where he doesn't know the language, places or people, he is far away from any human interaction. Najeeb steadily starts to identify himself with the goats. He considers himself as one of them. His dreams, desires, avenges and hopes starts to fade away as his mindset has now become similar to that of the goats. He talks to them, eats with them, sleeps with them and virtually lives the life of a goat. Although he has tried absconding multiple times, the supervisor catches him every time and punishes him by denying him food and water. He stops absconding when he finds the skeleton of the previous shepherd buried in the sand, who he thought had escaped. Even then, he keeps a ray of hope which will bring freedom and end to his sufferings some day.
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Aadujeevitham
Aadujeevitham (English: The Goat Life) is a 2008 Malayalam-language novel by Indian author Benyamin. Its English version is marketed under the title Goat Days. It is about an abused Malayali migrant worker employed in Saudi Arabia as a goatherd against his will.
The novel is based on real-life events and was a best seller in Kerala. According to media, Benyamin became an "overnight sensation" with the publication of this "hard-hitting story" and is currently one of the top sellers in Malayalam. The original Malayalam version of Goat Days has gone through over 100 reprints.
The novel depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammed, an Indian emigrant going missing in Saudi Arabia. Najeeb's dream was to work in the Persian Gulf region and earn enough money to send back home. But, he achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents into herding goats in the middle of the desert. In the end, Najeeb contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Penguin Books India's introduction describes the novel as "the strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb's life in the desert" and "a universal tale of loneliness and alienation".
The English translation of the novel appeared in the long list of Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and in the short list of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013. It won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel for Benyamin in 2009.
The book is divided into four parts (Prison, Desert, Escape and Refuge).
Najeeb Muhammad, a young man from Arattupuzha in Haripad of the Kerala state, is newly married and dreams of a better work in any of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. After several endeavors, he finally gets an opportunity to work in Saudi Arabia. However, at the King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh he is clueless as what to do next and is taken away by an Arab man who he believes to be his work sponsor. The work sponsor takes him to a cattle farm in the middle of a desert, confirming Najeeb's worst nightmare. The work sponsor hands Najeeb over to the farm supervisor.
Najeeb is then used as a shepherd and is assigned to tend goats, sheep and camels for almost 3+1⁄2 years in the remote deserts of Saudi Arabia. He is forced to do backbreaking work, kept half-hungry and is denied water to wash and suffers unimaginably. The farm's brutal supervisor keeps Najeeb in control with a gun and binoculars and frequently beats him with a belt. And now Najeeb had to manage this new fate without the bare human essentials.
In a country where he doesn't know the language, places or people, he is far away from any human interaction. Najeeb steadily starts to identify himself with the goats. He considers himself as one of them. His dreams, desires, avenges and hopes starts to fade away as his mindset has now become similar to that of the goats. He talks to them, eats with them, sleeps with them and virtually lives the life of a goat. Although he has tried absconding multiple times, the supervisor catches him every time and punishes him by denying him food and water. He stops absconding when he finds the skeleton of the previous shepherd buried in the sand, who he thought had escaped. Even then, he keeps a ray of hope which will bring freedom and end to his sufferings some day.