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      One Small Voice

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      Product ID:9780241996393
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:One Small Voice
      Authors:Author: Santanu Bhattacharya
      Page Count:400
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), India, c 1990 to c 2000
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      SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZEAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF THE YEAR'One of the best debuts this year' Guardian'An intoxicating portrait of modern India ... Terrific' Daily Mail'Hugely engaging, written with verve, intelligence and compassion' Irish Times____________________________________________India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye. As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends, Syed and Shruti, are asking the same questions : together, buoyed by the freedom of the big city, they are rewriting their stories. But as the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across the country, and their friendship becomes the rock they all cling to, this new life suddenly seems fragile. And before Shabby can chart his way forward, he must reckon with the ghosts of his past . . . ____________________________________________'A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'Devastating and intimate, and political and radical all at the same time. Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless' Nikesh Shukla'A wonderful, timely contribution to world literature' Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of This Mournable Body

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS'' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD
      SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE
      AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF THE YEAR

      ''One of the best debuts this year'' Guardian

      ''An intoxicating portrait of modern India ... Terrific'' Daily Mail


      ''Hugely engaging, written with verve, intelligence and compassion'' Irish Times
      ____________________________________________

      India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye.

      As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends, Syed and Shruti, are asking the same questions : together, buoyed by the freedom of the big city, they are rewriting their stories.

      But as the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across the country, and their friendship becomes the rock they all cling to, this new life suddenly seems fragile. And before Shabby can chart his way forward, he must reckon with the ghosts of his past . . .

      ____________________________________________

      ''A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller'' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers

      ''Devastating and intimate, and political and radical all at the same time. Bhattacharya''s storytelling talents are limitless'' Nikesh Shukla

      ''A wonderful, timely contribution to world literature'' Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of This Mournable Body


      Imprint Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2024-02-22

      Additional information

      Weight278 g
      Dimensions197 × 128 × 26 mm