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Ghachar Ghochar
โ Scribed by Vivek Shanbhag
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016;2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 014311168X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Vivek Shanbhag is an Indian Chekhov." --Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City
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
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...
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