Sounds familiar? The Christ-family references are intentional of course, but here, Yesu marries Magda, they move to Bangalore, have a baby and live middle-classily ever after. Perhaps the book was intended to be subversive and heretical but the prose style renders the narrative as a Malayalam TV sitcom. All the cliches are alive: noble fisherfolk, tragic death-at-sea, vile capitalist trawlers and the inevitable bowls of "rice-gruel".