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Author Śānabhāga, Vivēka, author.

Title Ghachar ghochar / Vivek Shanbhag ; translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
©2017 (English language translation)

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F SHANBHAK, V.    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION SHANBHAG    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F SHANBHAG    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F SHANBHAG    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-SHANBHAG    In Transit +1 HOLD
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SHANBHAG, V    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SHANBHAG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F SANABHAGA VIVEKA    Check Shelf
Description 119 pages ; 18 cm
Note Translated from the Kannada.
Summary 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Families -- India -- Fiction.
India -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Family Life.
FICTION / Psychological.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Perur, Srinath, translator.
Added Title Ghācar ghōcar. English ©2013
ISBN 9780143111689 (paperback)
014311168X (paperback)
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