[PDF] Ghachar Ghochar eBook

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014311168X

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE 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

Author : Srinath Perur
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9351185702

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What is it like to travel with others for adventure, lust and god? This delightful travelogue, in which Srinath Perur embarks upon ten conducted tours, is full of rich experiences: hanging on to a camel in the Thar Desert, joining thousands on a pilgrimage in Maharashtra, crossing living root bridges near Cherrapunji, rediscovering music while on the trail of Kabir, and a lot more. As much about people as it is about places, the book is also a reflection of the nature of popular travel today, which is marked by the packaging of experiences, the formation of tourist economies and compulsive picture-taking. How this influences tourists comes across vividly: in their creation of a mini India on a bus as they race through treasured sights in Europe; in their perfunctory devotion as they hop from temple to temple in Tamil Nadu; and in their ‘enjoying’ with sex workers far away from home. Ironic, and often comic, If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai is an idiosyncratic portrait of India and her people.

Author : James Brandon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0525517669

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In this tender-hearted debut, set against the tumultuous backdrop of life in 1973, when homosexuality is still considered a mental illness, two boys defy all the odds and fall in love. Now in paperback. The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, who aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbor and friend Starla, is completely alone. To cope, Jonathan escapes to the safe haven of his imagination, where his hero David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and dead relatives, including his mother, guide him through the rough terrain of his life. In his alternate reality, Jonathan can be anything: a superhero, an astronaut, Ziggy Stardust, himself, or completely "normal" and not a boy who likes other boys. When he completes his treatments, he will be normal—at least he hopes. But before that can happen, Web stumbles into his life. Web is everything Jonathan wishes he could be: fearless, fearsome and, most importantly, not ashamed of being gay. Jonathan doesn't want to like brooding Web, who has secrets all his own. Jonathan wants nothing more than to be "fixed" once and for all. But he's drawn to Web anyway. Web is the first person in the real world to see Jonathan completely and think he's perfect. Web is a kind of escape Jonathan has never known. For the first time in his life, he may finally feel free enough to love and accept himself as he is.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8122200532

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Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.

Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473523109

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Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.

Author : Han Yujoo
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555979602

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A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Tale is the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is “lucky”—she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won’t be denied a coveted sweater. Then there is the Child who, by contrast, is neither lucky nor unlucky. She makes so little impression that she seems not even to merit a name. At school, their fellow students, whether lucky or luckless or unlucky, seem consumed by an almost murderous rage. Adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by cruelty and soul-crushing hierarchies. Then, one day, the Child sneaks into the classroom after hours and adds ominous sentences to her classmates’ notebooks. This sinister but initially inconsequential act unlocks a series of events that end in horrible violence. But that is not the end of this eerie, unpredictable novel. A teacher, who is also this book’s author, wakes from an intense dream. When she arrives at her next class, she recognizes a student: the Child, who knows about the events of the novel’s first half, which took place years earlier. Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairy Tale is a fresh and terrifying exploration of the ethics of art making and of the stinging consequences of neglect.

Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857208926

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When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie's intelligence and curiosity propelled her to a more modern path. Addie wanted to finish high school and to go to college. She wanted a career, to find true love. She wanted to escape the confines of her family. And she did. Told against the backdrop of World War I, and written with the same immense emotional impact that has made Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in the early 20th Century, and a window into the lives of all women seeking to understand the world around them.

Author : Jayant Kaikini
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 194822691X

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For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

Author : Vivek Shanbhag
Publisher : Akshara Prakashana
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ ಹತ್ತು-ಹದಿನೈದು ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್. ಆಧುನಿಕ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರದ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸಂವೇದನಾಶೀಲವಾಗಿ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾಗಿ, ಹೃದಯಂಗಮವಾಗಿ ವಿವೇಚಿಸುವ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಧ್ಯಾನಿಸಿ ಬರೆದ ಕತೆಯೊಂದು ಹೇಗೆ ಒಳನೋಟಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅನುಭವವನ್ನೂ ಒಂದಿಡೀ ತಲೆಮಾರಿನ ತಲ್ಲಣವನ್ನೂ ಹಿಡಿದಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಕುತೂಹಲಕಾರಿ. ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್ ಅಂಥದ್ದೊಂದು ಕತೆ. ಜೋಗಿ 'ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್' ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಮುಗಿದಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತನ್ನಿಸುವುದು, ಆ ದಾರಿಗೆ ಇರಬಹುದಾದ ಹಲವು ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ. ವೆಂಕಟ್ರಮಣ ಗೌಡ ಕೇವಲ ಸಾಂಸಾರಿಕ ರಗಳೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗೋಳುಕರೆಯಾಗಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದ ಕಥನವೊಂದು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಸ್ವಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ತನೆಗಳ ಹಿಂದಿನ ನಿಗೂಢತೆಗೆ ಹಿಡಿದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ; ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಧ್ಯಾನವಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಟಿ.ಪಿ. ಅಶೋಕ ಈ ಯುಗಳ ಪದ ನಮ್ಮ ಇಡೀ ಬದುಕೇ ಗೋಜಲಾಗಿರುವ ಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾವ ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಯಂತೆ ಅನುರಣನಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಸ್. ಆರ್. ವಿಜಯಶಂಕರ A Kannada book by Akshara Prakashana / ಅಕ್ಷರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ