{"product_id":"hawa-hawa-and-other-stories-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNabarun Bhattacharya \u003c\/b\u003e(1948-2014) was born into a family of writers, filmmakers, artists and academics. A journalist from 1973 to 1991, he gave up that career in order to become a full-time writer. His best-known works include the novel \u003ci\u003eHarbert \u003c\/i\u003e(1992).\u003cb\u003e Subha Prasad Sanyal\u003c\/b\u003e is the winner of the Harvill-Secker Young Translator's Prize (2018). He is pursuing a degree in English from Jadavpur University, Calcutta.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383612150034,"sku":"9780857429827","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90810708-39df-45aa-b0ca-54fd9b69369a.jpg?v=1728784847","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hawa-hawa-and-other-stories-9780857429827","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}