Ghachar ghochar / Vivek Shanbhag ; translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Kannada Publisher: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Harper Perennial, 2015Description: 118 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
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- volume
- 9789351776178 (hardback)
- 9351776174 (hardback)
- Ghācar ghōcar. English
- 891.814371 SHA 23 009973
- MLCS 2016/50034 (P)
- PL4659.S2518 G33 2015
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 891.814371 SHA 008114 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 008114 | |
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891.81137 BAM 019623 Harum-scarum saar & other stories / | 891.8143 BHA 015346 ಗಿರಿಕನ್ನಿಕೆ / | 891.814371 SHA 008114 Ghachar ghochar / | 891.814371 SHA 009973 Ghachar ghochar / | 891.81472 BES 010171 ಬೆಸ್ಟ್ ಆಫ್ ಕೇಫ : | 891.81472 KAR 010177 ಮೆಲುಕು / | 891.81472 KAR 010179 ನಾಗಮಂಡಲ / |
Novel. Translated from the Kannada.
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting novel about an upwardly mobile family splintered by success in rapidly changing India. "It's true what they say--it's not we who control money, it's the money that controls us." In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company. As the narrator--a sensitive young man who is never named--his sister, his parents, and his uncle move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house and begin to grow accustomed to their newfound wealth, the family dynamics begin to shift. Allegiances and desires realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things begin to become "ghachar ghochar"--a nonsense phrase that, to the narrator, comes to mean something entangled beyond repair. Told in clean, urgent prose, 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"-- ‡c Provided by publisher.
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