02544nam 2200421 450 991015624130332120210111155348.0(CKB)3710000000984901(MiAaPQ)EBC6046531(Au-PeEL)EBL6046531(OCoLC)1134419233(EXLCZ)99371000000098490120170120d2017 uy 1engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGhachar ghochar /Vivek Shanbhag ; translated from the Kannada by Srinath PerurNew York, New York :Penguin Books/Penguin Publishing Group,[2017]1 online resource (vi, 119 pages)0-14-311168-X 1-101-99294-8 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.FamiliesIndiaFictionlatNLIIndiaSocial conditionsFictionlatNLIIndiaSocial conditionsFictionElectronic books.FamiliesIndiaSocial conditions894.8/14371FIC019000FIC045000FIC025000bisacshŚānabhāga Vivēka1245998Perur SrinathBOOK9910156241303321Ghachar ghochar2889302UNINA