Details

Subject(s)

• Families—India—Fiction [Browse]
• India—Social conditions—Fiction [Browse]

Translator

Perur, Srinath [Browse]

Distributor

OverDrive, Inc [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Electronic audio file.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Mumbai Storyside IN 2020 Available via World Wide Web.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Read by Darrpan Mehta.

ISBN

9789389860139 (electronic audio bk.)

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