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Ghachar Ghochar

Vivek Shanbhag with Srinath Perur (trans.)

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Ghachar Ghochar was one of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2017, one of Vulture's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Fiction, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly. 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.

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101992944
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family dynamicsWealth and moral corruptionContemporary India

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