Iruttil Oru Punyalan (translated as A Saint in the Dark ) is a critically acclaimed Malayalam novel by P.F. Mathews

. His writing is often compared to the masters of European existentialism but remains deeply rooted in the soil of Kerala. Reading "Iruttil Oru Punyalan" is often recommended alongside his other works like Andhakaranazhi or specific literary criticism of this novel?

Iruttil Oru Punyalan (A Saint in the Dark), written by the acclaimed Malayalam author and screenwriter P.F. Mathews