{"product_id":"hawa-hawa-nabarun-bhattacharya-9780857429827","title":"Hawa Hawa: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India's most prominent countercultural writers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eHawa Hawa and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey through the mind of one of the most daring countercultural writers of India, one with particular resonance in these chaotic times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nabarun Bhattacharya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0857429825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780857429827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.71d","brand":"Nabarun Bhattacharya","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945466659071,"sku":"9780857429827","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4c5f3667-f7ff-4ce4-8f9e-c712e0eb861f.jpg?v=1681508453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hawa-hawa-nabarun-bhattacharya-9780857429827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}