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1 online resource (119 pages) |
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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. |
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A close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator's uncle founds a successful spice company, but as the family begins to grow accustomed to their newfound wealth, their dynamics begin to shift. |
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Families -- India -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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Social conditions. |
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India -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
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India. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Pscyhological fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Pscyhological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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| Added Author |
Perur, Srinath, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): nabhga, Vivka. Ghachar ghochar New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017] 9780143111689 (DLC) 2016027137 (OCoLC)950444129 |
| ISBN |
9781101992944 : $45.00 |
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1101992948 : $45.00 |
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