Ghachar Ghochar
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth, when allegiances and desires realign and conflict brews ominously. Things get all "ghachar ghochar"--a nonsense phrase that once meant a knot that can't be untied, comes to mean something...
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A family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth, when allegiances and desires realign and conflict brews ominously. Things get all "ghachar ghochar"--a nonsense phrase that once meant a knot that can't be untied, comes to mean something entangled beyond repair. An enthralling, unsettling novel about the shifting meanings--and consequences--of financial gain in contemporary India.
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION
A modern classic. The New York Times Book Review
A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become ghachar ghochar a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied.
Elegantly written 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.
A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin. The New Yorker
Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master. The Paris Review
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly
Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
Autoren-Porträt von Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language Kannada. He was a Fall 2016 resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. The first of his books to appear in English, Ghachar Ghochar was excerpted in Granta s 2015 India issue.Srinath Perur (translator) is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in n+1, Granta, and the Guardian. He is the author of If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai, published by Penguin India.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vivek Shanbhag
- 2017, 128 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 18 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzung: Perur, Srinath
- Übersetzer: Srinath Perur
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 014311168X
- ISBN-13: 9780143111689
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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