Hawa Hawa: And Other Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780857429827)

A collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India's most prominent countercultural writers.

In this wildly inventive collection of Nabarun Bhattacharya's stories, we meet characters such as a trigger-happy cop in an authoritarian police state, a man who holds on to a piece of rope from a deadly noose, a retired revolutionary thrilled by delusions of grandeur, and people working for a corporation that arranges lavish suicides for a price. Ranging from scathing satires of society to surreal investigations of violence and love, these stories are also a window onto the political and social climate in Bengal, tracing both pan-Indian developments like the 1975 Emergency and local ones like militant-leftist Naxalism and the decades-long Communist reign in the state. Expertly translated from the Bengali, Hawa Hawa and Other Stories is a journey through the mind of one of the most daring countercultural writers of India, one with particular resonance in these chaotic times.

Author: Nabarun Bhattacharya
ISBN-10: 0857429825
ISBN-13: 9780857429827
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2023
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.71d