{"product_id":"the-hunger-beneath-godfrey-serene-9798241193445","title":"The Hunger Beneath: Some debts are paid in souls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE HUNGER BENEATH\u003cbr\u003eSome Debts are paid in Souls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Rain Washes Away the Dirt. It Never Washes Away the Debt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the humid, rain-drenched town of Palakkad, a series of suicides among the descendants of old colonial families has the police baffled. To the authorities, they are tragic, isolated incidents. To \u003cb\u003eRohini\u003c\/b\u003e, a mathematics teacher who sees the world in equations, they are a sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spiral is widening. The \"Auto de Fe\" is prepared. And the hunger beneath the earth is waiting to be fed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory is often described as a river, but in the archives of the colony, it is more often a \u003cb\u003epalimpsest\u003c\/b\u003e-a manuscript where the original text has been scraped away to make room for a new story. But the ink never truly vanishes; it sinks deep into the fiber, waiting for the right light to reveal the shadow of what was erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the characters of this story are inventions, the silence they confront is historical. It is the silence of the \u003ci\u003emaculature\u003c\/i\u003e-the waste paper used to bind books, often hiding the names of the condemned-and the silence of the indigenous families who carried the weight of the empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe often believe that the past is dead. But as this story suggests, the binding is not in the blood; it is in the ink. And the ink is still wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGodfrey Serene\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Godfrey Serene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798241193445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Godfrey Serene","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520273330431,"sku":"9798241193445","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_176878ab-f9ef-4ebc-b4d1-90eeca5aae6e.jpg?v=1778741770","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hunger-beneath-godfrey-serene-9798241193445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}