Come back every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week we have Satyam Sankaramanchi, Tripuraneni Gopichand, Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry, Sivaraju Venkata Subbarao and Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham.
Amaravati Kathalu by Satyam Sankaramanchi
This collection of short stories is based on the everyday encounters of the people of the village of Amaravati. They follow a typical Chekhovian style and are heart warming to read.
Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand
Considered one of the author's best works, this stream of conscious novel is also regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu literature.
Barrister Parvateesam by Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry
This is a humorous novel that pokes fun at postcolonialism. It follows Parvateesam who leaves Andhra Pradesh in hopes of becoming a barrister and narrates all his adventures abroad.
Chivaraku Migiledi by Sivaraju Venkata Subbarao
Subbarao, who is more popularly known by his pen-name Butchi Babu, centres this psychological novel around Dayanidhi, a doctor with a fixation on her mother's and the difficulties he experiences after her death.
Ganapathi by Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham
One of the first novels of modern Telegu literature, it criticizes kanyasulkam, which is the practice of the payment by the groom to the bride's father, and highlights the acute poverty in Brahmin families.
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