Ghachar Ghochar

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789352775064

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From a cramped, ant-infested house to a spacious bungalow, a family finds itself making a transition in many ways. The narrator, a sensitive young man, is numbed by the swirl around him. All he can do is flee every day to an old-world cafe, where he seeks solace from an oracular waiter. As members of the family realign their equations and desires, new strands are knotted, others come apart, and conflict brews dangerously in the background. Masterfully translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Ghachar Ghochar is a suspenseful, playful and ultimately menacing story about the shifting consequences of success.

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992944

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Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag Pdf

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of financial gain in contemporary India. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

Author : Srinath Perur
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351185703

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If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai by Srinath Perur Pdf

What is it like to travel with others for adventure, lust and god? This delightful travelogue, in which Srinath Perur embarks upon ten conducted tours, is full of rich experiences: hanging on to a camel in the Thar Desert, joining thousands on a pilgrimage in Maharashtra, crossing living root bridges near Cherrapunji, rediscovering music while on the trail of Kabir, and a lot more. As much about people as it is about places, the book is also a reflection of the nature of popular travel today, which is marked by the packaging of experiences, the formation of tourist economies and compulsive picture-taking. How this influences tourists comes across vividly: in their creation of a mini India on a bus as they race through treasured sights in Europe; in their perfunctory devotion as they hop from temple to temple in Tamil Nadu; and in their ‘enjoying’ with sex workers far away from home. Ironic, and often comic, If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai is an idiosyncratic portrait of India and her people.

Author : Han Yujoo
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979607

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The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo Pdf

A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won’t be denied a coveted sweater. Then there is the Child who, by contrast, is neither lucky nor unlucky. She makes so little impression that she seems not even to merit a name. At school, their fellow students, whether lucky or luckless or unlucky, seem consumed by an almost murderous rage. Adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by cruelty and soul-crushing hierarchies. Then, one day, the Child sneaks into the classroom after hours and adds ominous sentences to her classmates’ notebooks. This sinister but initially inconsequential act unlocks a series of events that end in horrible violence. But that is not the end of this eerie, unpredictable novel. A teacher, who is also this book’s author, wakes from an intense dream. When she arrives at her next class, she recognizes a student: the Child, who knows about the events of the novel’s first half, which took place years earlier. Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale is a fresh and terrifying exploration of the ethics of art making and of the stinging consequences of neglect.

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Akshara Prakashana
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ ಹತ್ತು-ಹದಿನೈದು ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್. ಆಧುನಿಕ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರದ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸಂವೇದನಾಶೀಲವಾಗಿ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾಗಿ, ಹೃದಯಂಗಮವಾಗಿ ವಿವೇಚಿಸುವ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಧ್ಯಾನಿಸಿ ಬರೆದ ಕತೆಯೊಂದು ಹೇಗೆ ಒಳನೋಟಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅನುಭವವನ್ನೂ ಒಂದಿಡೀ ತಲೆಮಾರಿನ ತಲ್ಲಣವನ್ನೂ ಹಿಡಿದಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಕುತೂಹಲಕಾರಿ. ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್ ಅಂಥದ್ದೊಂದು ಕತೆ. ಜೋಗಿ 'ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್' ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಮುಗಿದಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತನ್ನಿಸುವುದು, ಆ ದಾರಿಗೆ ಇರಬಹುದಾದ ಹಲವು ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ. ವೆಂಕಟ್ರಮಣ ಗೌಡ ಕೇವಲ ಸಾಂಸಾರಿಕ ರಗಳೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗೋಳುಕರೆಯಾಗಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದ ಕಥನವೊಂದು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಸ್ವಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ತನೆಗಳ ಹಿಂದಿನ ನಿಗೂಢತೆಗೆ ಹಿಡಿದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ; ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಧ್ಯಾನವಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಟಿ.ಪಿ. ಅಶೋಕ ಈ ಯುಗಳ ಪದ ನಮ್ಮ ಇಡೀ ಬದುಕೇ ಗೋಜಲಾಗಿರುವ ಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾವ ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಯಂತೆ ಅನುರಣನಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಸ್. ಆರ್. ವಿಜಯಶಂಕರ A Kannada book by Akshara Prakashana / ಅಕ್ಷರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ

Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473523104

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A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee Pdf

Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.

Author : Jayant Kaikini
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226912

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No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini Pdf

For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184006261

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The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee Pdf

‘Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so bloated that I feel I cannot breathe any more. I am leaving to find some air, some place where I shall be able to purge myself, push back against the life given me and make my own. I feel I live in a borrowed house. It’s time to find my own . . . Forgive me . . .’ Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in student unrest, agitation, extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is this note . . . The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that beneath the barely ruffled surface of their lives the sands are shifting. More than poisonous rivalries among sisters-in-law, destructive secrets, and the implosion of the family business, this is a family unraveling as the society around it fractures. For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change: the chasm between the generations, and between those who have and those who have not, has never been wider. Ambitious, rich and compassionate, The Lives of Others unfolds a family history, and anatomizes a social class in all its contradictions. It asks: can we escape what is in our blood? How do we imagine our place amongst others in the world? Can that be reimagined? And at what cost? This is a novel of rare power and emotional force.

Author : Prajwal Parajuly
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623654580

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Land Where I Flee by Prajwal Parajuly Pdf

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Prajwal Parajuly has established himself as a distinctive voice in literature about the South Asian diaspora. Now in his debut novel, Land Where I Flee about returning home, Parajuly demonstrates that he is, as Manil Suri noted, "a master capturing, with wit and humor, the day-to-day interactions between his characters." To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney's Chaurasi--her landmark eighty-fourth birthday--three of Chitralekha's grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his family's inquisition into why he is not married, and terrified that the reason for his bachelordom will be discovered. Joining him are his sisters Manasa and Bhagwati, travelling from London and Colorado respectively. One the Oxford-educated achiever; the other the disgraced eloper--one moneyed but miserable; the other ostracized but optimistic. All three harbor the same dual objective: to emerge from the celebrations with their formidable grandmother's blessing and their nerves intact: a goal that will become increasingly impossible thanks to a mischievous maid and a fourth, uninvited guest.

Author : Perumal Murugan
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275473

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One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan Pdf

A vibrant fable of marriage, caste and social convention from a major Indian writer Kali and Ponna are perfectly content in their marriage, aside from one thing, they are unable to conceive. As their childlessness begins to attract local gossip and family disapproval, they try everything from prayers to potions, but none of the offerings or rituals helps. Increasingly unhappy and desperate, they consider a more drastic plan: the annual chariot festival, a celebration of the half-male, half-female god Maadhorubaagan. For one night, the rules of marriage are relaxed, and consensual sex between unmarried men and women is overlooked, for all men are considered gods. But rather than bring them together, this scheme threatens to drive the couple apart. Selling over 100,000 copies in India, where it was published first in the original Tamil and then in this celebrated English translation, One Part Woman has become a cult phenomenon in the subcontinent, jump-starting conversations about caste and female empowerment. Tender, deeply poignant, and bitingly critical, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage under strain. Perumal Murugan is an Indian author and professor of Tamil literature. He has written six novels and four collections each of short stories and poetry. His best-known novel One Part Woman, highly controversial in India, won the ILF Samanvay Basha Samman, and Aniruddhan Vasudevan's English rendering won the Translation Prize from India's National Academy of Letters.

Author : Paul Rosolie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945654317

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The Girl and the Tiger by Paul Rosolie Pdf

When Isha is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she finds a young Bengal tiger that needs her protection. Her crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India.

Author : Ali Sethi,Ali
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9780143068112

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The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi,Ali Pdf

Author : Taran Khan
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178470802X

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Shadow City by Taran Khan Pdf

Author : Neamat Imam
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788184759501

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The Black Coat by Neamat Imam Pdf

It is the 1970s. After a bloody struggle, Bangladesh is an independent nation. But thousands are pouring into Dhaka from all over the country, looking for food and shelter. Amongst them is Nur Hussain, an uneducated young man from a remote village, who is only good at mimicking a famous speech of the prime minister's. He turns up at journalist Khaleque Biswas's doorstep, seeking employment. He is initially a burden for Khaleque, but then Khaleque, who has recently lost his job, has the idea of turning Nur into a fake Sheikh Mujib. WIth the blessings of the political establishment, he starts chasing in on the nationalist frevour of the city's poorest. But even as the money rolls in, the tension between the two men increases and reaches a violent climax when Nur refuses to stick to the script. Intense yet chilling, this brilliant first novel is a meditation on power, greed and the human cost of the politics.

Author : Suzan Colon
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307475930

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Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colon Pdf

An irresistible gem of a book that shows us that “when poverty looms, your best weapon may be a well-nourished soul” (People). When Suzan Colón was laid off from her dream job at a national magazine, she needed to cut her budget, and fast. That meant dusting off her grandmother Matilda’s old recipe folder and learning how to cook cheaply and simply. But Suzan found more than just amazing recipes—she found a new appreciation for the strong women in her family and the key to their survival through hard times. Full of heart, Cherries in Winter makes you want to cook, it makes you want to know your own family's stories, and, above all, it makes you feel rich no matter what.