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

• Autore: Śānabhāga Vivēka
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Penguin Books/Penguin Publishing Group, , [2017]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 119 pages)
• Disciplina: 894.8/14371
• Soggetto topico: Families - India; India - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: India Social conditions Fiction
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: FIC019000FIC045000FIC025000
• Persona (resp. second.): PerurSrinath
• Sommario/riassunto: 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Ghachar ghochar
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910156241303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II