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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2023
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- ISBN:9780857429827
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857429827
