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Hawa Hawa: And Other Stories (The India List)
Seagull Books
ISBN13:
9780857429827
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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.
- | Author: Nabarun Bhattacharya
- | Publisher: Seagull Books
- | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 152 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0857429825
- | ISBN-13: 9780857429827
- Author:
- Nabarun Bhattacharya
- Publisher:
- Seagull Books
- Publication Date:
- Mar 06, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 152 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0857429825
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857429827