Scorching desert heat and a longing for escape

‘Khabuj’ is the story of a migrant worker, Najib, who like other labourers in Gulf countries, frequently comes face-to-face with death in the hope of making a living.

There are many gut-wrenching books where the reader is compelled to stare at the walls or ceiling to contemplate what they have just read. There are many such moments in ‘Khabuj’ written by Benyamin and translated to Nepali by Dinesh Kafle. The novel inspired by true events was initially written in the writer’s mother tongue—Malayalam and is called ‘Aatujeevitham’.