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.
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