{"product_id":"hawa-hawa-by-nabarun-bhattacharya-9780857429827","title":"Hawa Hawa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India’s most prominent countercultural writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging 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. They trace both pan-Indian developments like the 1975 Emergency and local ones, such as militant-leftist Naxalism and the decades-long Communist reign in the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpertly translated from the Bengali, \u003cem\u003eHawa Hawa and Other Stories\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853264015596,"sku":"9780857429827","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7223803482493.jpg?v=1759193680","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/hawa-hawa-by-nabarun-bhattacharya-9780857429827","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}