Description
| Product ID: | 9780857429827 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | The India List |
| Title: | Hawa Hawa |
| Subtitle: | and Other Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Nabarun Bhattacharya, Subha Prasad Sanyal |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India’s most prominent countercultural writers. In this wildly inventive collection of Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, we meet characters such as a trigger-happy cop in an authoritarian police state, a man who holds on to a piece of rope from a deadly noose, a retired revolutionary thrilled by delusions of grandeur, and people working for a corporation that arranges lavish suicides for a price. Ranging from scathing satires of society to surreal investigations of violence and love, these stories are also a window onto the political and social climate in Bengal, tracing both pan-Indian developments like the 1975 Emergency and local ones like militant-leftist Naxalism and the decades-long Communist reign in the state. Expertly translated from the Bengali, Hawa Hawa and Other Stories is a journey through the mind of one of the most daring countercultural writers of India, one with particular resonance in these chaotic times. |
| Imprint Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-03 |
