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Aavarana

Aavarana is a 2007 Kannada novel by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. Aavarana means enveloping or covering something. This novel deals with the historical character like Mogul Emperor Aurangazeb. Aavarana was sold out even before its release in February 2007. The novel went on to create a record in the Indian literary world by witnessing 10 reprints within five months of its release.

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Anchu (novel)

Anchu is a 1990 Kannada novel by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. Anchu means edge or boundary. This novel deals with two main characters: one is an educated lady who is deceived in life, and another is an enthusiastic, professionally educated man. The novel has the love story between these two characters and how the lady shows all the anger and frustration on the man who loves her honestly. The novel focus on inner details of the psychological and temperamental variation of the characters without perceivable external events and actions.

Anveshana (novel)W
Anveshana (novel)

Anveshana (meaning: Exploration) is a novel written by S. L. Bhyrappa, which was first published on 1976. As of May 2018, it had 13 reprints and has been translated into Hindi and Marathi languages.

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Bheemakaaya

Bheemakaaya is the first novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa, it got published on 1952. Bheemakaaya means giant, massive, and this book is about a wrestler and his life. Bhyrappa was 18 years old when he was written this article.

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Daatu

Daatu is a novel by Kannada writer S L Bhyrappa for which he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 1975. The Book has story which goes through the complex caste system that is deep rooted into Indian society demonstrated through the characters. This book has been translated to 14 major Indian Languages. The novel name indicated the crossing over the boundaries of castes and colors.

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Dharmashree

Dharmashree is a Kannada language novel written by S L Bhyrappa. This novel is about a man living who is a true believer of Sanathana Dharma. He converts to Christianity to marry a girl for his true love. The novel explores his inner search on true love versus true religion. He faces various advantages and disadvantages when converted to other religion. Meanwhile, she understand him very well more than himself he could and helps him to solve the internal conflicts. The main theme of the book is exploration of the problems in the society with respect to religions.

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Doora Saridaru

Doora Saridaru (meaning: Moved apart) is a 1960 Kannada novel by saraswathi samman awarded novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. This is one of the novels written at an early stage of his writings. The novel portrays two sets of young couples in their college campus with their psychological and social conflicts that prevent them getting married.

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Grahana (novel)

Grahana (meaning: Eclipse) is a novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa, which was first published in 1972. As of May 2018, it had 11 reprints.

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Gruhabhanga

Grahabanga (Kannada: ಗೃಹಭಂಗ is a well-known novel by one of the most important novelists in Kannada S L Bhyrappa. The plot depicts rural India, starts around the 1920s and ends around the 1940s. The story has the heroic struggle of a woman against her idiotic husband, vicious mother-in-law, superstitious neighbours and pervading poverty. Tiptur, Channarayapatna regions are covered in this novel. This novel is considered an Indian classic and hence National Book Trust, India translated this into all the fourteen major languages of India. In 2003 it was made into a television series by Girish Kasaravalli which was produced by the actress Soundarya.

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Kavalu

Kavalu is a 2010 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. Kavalu means "cross-roads" and the novel deals with Indian society at Crossroads in the era of globalization. The story revolves around the main character Jaya Kumar.

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Mandra (novel)

Mandra is a novel by Kannada writer S L Bhyrappa for which he was awarded the Saraswati Samman for the year 2010. 'Mandra' is one of the most acclaimed epic novels of Bhyrappa. The novel was published by Sahitya Bhandara, Balepet, Bangalore, in 2002. The book has story surrounded by musicians and dancers. The information on how this book was written is present in ′Sandarbha: Samvaada′ (meaning: Context: conversation).

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Matadana

Matadana (meaning: voting) is a 1965 novel written by the famous Kannada writer, philosopher, thinker S L Bhyrappa. An award winning Kannada movie Mathadana based on this novel, which was directed by T N Seetharam secured 'Best Regional Film' award at 47th National Film Awards. Matadana reveals the caste based politics and other dynamics that grip the democratic institution of ballot box in India.

Naayi Neralu (novel)W
Naayi Neralu (novel)

Naayi Neralu (meaning: Shadow of the Dog) is a novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa, which was first published on 1968. As of May 2018, it had 17 reprints and has been translated into Hindi and Gujarati languages. Based on the novel, a movie Naayi Neralu, in Kannada language was released in 2006, directed by Girish Kasaravalli.

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Nele (novel)

Nele (meaning: Base) is a 1983 novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa. This book explores a person's life after his death from philosophical point of view. A friend got to see notes of Javarayi, and which has full of philosophical thoughts about life.

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Nirakarana

Niraakarna is a Kannada language novel written by S L Bhyrappa. This novel is about a man living in the slum area of Mumbai, supporting his family's food and shelter by earning as a job typist, left with five children after his two wives' death. He faces much difficulty caring for the kids by himself, and decides to give them away for adoption. The novel explores the emotional conflicts of both father and children, meanwhile he explores his spiritual path, understand oneself.

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Parva (novel)

Parva is a Kannada language novel written by S. L. Bhyrappa based on the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata. It is a non-mythological retelling of the Mahabharata and is widely acclaimed as a modern classic. The story of the Mahabharata in Parva is narrated in the form of personal reflections of some of the principal characters of the epic. Parva is unique in terms of the complete absence of any episode that has the element of divine intervention found in the original.

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Saartha

Saartha, which means Caravan, a novel written by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. Through a caravan, the novel explores the whole of India of the 8th century A.D. covering the political, economical, artistic and spiritual life of the country. It uses some historical persons like Adi Shankaracharya, Maṇḍana Miśra, Ubhaya Bharati and Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and institutions like Nalanda. It is a unique novel translated into Sanskrit and received by Sanskrit scholars like a work originally written in Sanskrit It is translated into Hindi and in English published by Oxford University Press, Chennai.

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Sakshi (novel)

Sakshi (meaning: The witness) is a novel written by S.L. Bhyrappa, which was first published in 1986. As of May 2018, it had 9 reprints and has been translated into Hindi and English languages.The book has been translated into English by Niyogi Books

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Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane (novel)

Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane (meaning: You've become orphan, son) is a novel written by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. This book is about a conflict of a culture with modern views of an educated person in a village of India. Author introduced the characters and develop them throughout the book who represent the different views and fight for moral truth and scientific truths. This book is suitable to the people who wants to know about village life and background of cow as a God in India.

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Tantu

Tantu is a 1993 Kannada novel by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa. Tantu means relations or links between human emotions.. This book was translated into English in the year 2010 by Niyogi Books.

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Uttarakaanda (novel)

Uttarakaanda is a 2017 Kannada novel by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa, based on the Sanskrit epic, Ramayana. This book was released on 16 January 2017.

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Yaana (novel)

Yaana (meaning: Sail) is a novel written by novelist S.L. Bhyrappa, which has a story of two astronauts traveling in a spaceship to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the earth which is around 4-6 light years away. The journey takes several decades. The novel focuses on scientific problems and human relationships when they are away from the earth. While generating oxygen and food on the spaceship the technical problems, the other issues are giving birth to children there and nurturing them.