| 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.
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India -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Literary.
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FICTION / Family Life.
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FICTION / Psychological.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
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Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Psychological fiction.
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| Added Author |
Perur, Srinath, translator.
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| Added Title |
Ghācar ghōcar. English ©2013
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| ISBN |
9780143111689 (paperback) |
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014311168X (paperback) |
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