Hawa Hawa: And Other Stories

By Nabarun Bhattacharya

A collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India's most prominent countercultural writers. 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, Hawa Hawa and Other Stories is a journey through the mind of one of the most daring countercultural writers of India, one with particular resonance in these chaotic times.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857429825
• ISBN13: 9780857429827
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"