{"id":103004,"date":"2023-01-14T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=103004"},"modified":"2023-01-14T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T07:48:25","slug":"the-book-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/the-book-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-103005 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/book-of-life.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/book-of-life.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/book-of-life-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/book-of-life-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/book-of-life-525x350.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third day of Kerala Literature Fest began with a wonderful talk by C V Balakrishnan and Rajendran Eduthumkara about the book &#8220;Ayusinte Pusthakam.&#8221; The novel was written after coming back from Kolkata, and &#8220;it had inspired me a lot,&#8221; said Balakrishnan. It took him two years to complete the novel, which describes homosexual love and how it is seen.<\/p>\n<p>The author faced many difficulties with the publication of the book; many of the leading publishers couldn&#8217;t help him to publish, but in the end, DC Books helped him and made his work a lot more popular, and because of its popularity, it had been translated to the Tamil language at first and then to many more.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Ayusinte Pusthakam,&#8221; an excerpt from the Bible, he criticises how many of these things are considered sins in Christian society. He extended his words by saying, &#8220;Johanan&#8217;s character and his loneliness gave me the motives to write this book.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third day of Kerala Literature Fest began with a wonderful talk by C V Balakrishnan and Rajendran Eduthumkara about the book &#8220;Ayusinte Pusthakam.&#8221; The novel was written after coming back from Kolkata, and &#8220;it had inspired me a lot,&#8221; said Balakrishnan. It took him two years to complete the novel, which describes homosexual love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":103005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103006,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103004\/revisions\/103006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}