A writer of novels, essays, children’s fiction, and travelogues, Paul Zacharia is known for his surrealistic and chimeric narratives that teleport readers to a world with its own unique laws. Zacharia has written over 50 works in Malayalam, known for blending mystery and ambiguity. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has also received the Kendra Sahitya Akademi and Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards.

, is a revised edition of Zacharia’s debut novel in English, published in 2019, in which he portrays reality as contentious by inverting and skewing traditional structures such as husband/wife, truth/lie, and life/death.

In True Story of a Writer, A Philosopher And a Shape-shifter, Paul Zacharia weaves humour, magic, and ambiguity to create a world where hunger is old-fashioned, air is copyrighted, and the moral market is saturated. The logical fallacies that govern the Writer, Philosopher, and Shape-Shifter make their story a “true story”.

Shifting from fiction to nonfiction was a herculean task for Lord Spider, a celebrity writer, and master of grandiose fiction, with a copious oeuvre of over a hundred and thirty books. He is a writer so deeply committed to his art that it...