Ghachar ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag ; translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur.
Bok Engelsk 2017 Vivēka Śānabhāga,· Electronic books.
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| Originaltittel | [ Ghācar ghōcar. .] English
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| Medvirkende | Perur, Srinath (translator)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (vi, 119 pages)
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| Opplysninger | 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"--
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| ISBN | 0-14-311168-X. - 1-101-99294-8. - 9781101992944
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