ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written 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. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳೆದ ಹತ್ತು-ಹದಿನೈದು ವರ್ಷಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಕಟವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್. ಆಧುನಿಕ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರದ ಜೀವನವನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಇಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಸಂವೇದನಾಶೀಲವಾಗಿ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾಗಿ, ಹೃದಯಂಗಮವಾಗಿ ವಿವೇಚಿಸುವ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಗಿರೀಶ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ ಧ್ಯಾನಿಸಿ ಬರೆದ ಕತೆಯೊಂದು ಹೇಗೆ ಒಳನೋಟಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅನುಭವವನ್ನೂ ಒಂದಿಡೀ ತಲೆಮಾರಿನ ತಲ್ಲಣವನ್ನೂ ಹಿಡಿದಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದು ಕುತೂಹಲಕಾರಿ. ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್ ಅಂಥದ್ದೊಂದು ಕತೆ. ಜೋಗಿ 'ಘಾಚರ್ ಘೋಚರ್' ಕಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಥೆ ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಮುಗಿದಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂತನ್ನಿಸುವುದು, ಆ ದಾರಿಗೆ ಇರಬಹುದಾದ ಹಲವು ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದಾಗಿ. ವೆಂಕಟ್ರಮಣ ಗೌಡ ಕೇವಲ ಸಾಂಸಾರಿಕ ರಗಳೆ ಅಥವಾ ಗೋಳುಕರೆಯಾಗಬಹುದಾಗಿದ್ದ ಕಥನವೊಂದು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಸ್ವಭಾವ ಮತ್ತು ವರ್ತನೆಗಳ ಹಿಂದಿನ ನಿಗೂಢತೆಗೆ ಹಿಡಿದ ಕನ್ನಡಿಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ; ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಭಿವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಕಷ್ಟಗಳ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಧ್ಯಾನವಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಟಿ.ಪಿ. ಅಶೋಕ ಈ ಯುಗಳ ಪದ ನಮ್ಮ ಇಡೀ ಬದುಕೇ ಗೋಜಲಾಗಿರುವ ಕ್ರಮಕ್ಕೆ ಭಾವ ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿಯಂತೆ ಅನುರಣನಗೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಸ್. ಆರ್. ವಿಜಯಶಂಕರ A Kannada book by Akshara Prakashana / ಅಕ್ಷರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶನ

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF VULTURE'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN FICTION “A modern classic.” —The New York Times Book Review A young man's close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house on the other side of Bangalore, and try to adjust to a new way of life, the family dynamic begins to shift. Allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become “ghachar ghochar”—a nonsense phrase uttered by one meaning something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can't be untied. Elegantly written 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. “A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin.” —The New Yorker “Ghachar Ghochar introduces us to a master.” —The Paris Review Named a Best Book of the Year by the Guardian, Globe and Mail, and Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award in Prose Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico. By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.

This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals with them shortly, only to find his quiet, middle-class life upended by a bewildering set of events over the next few days. Even as Venkat is hurled into a world of street gangs and murky journalism, we see a parallel narrative unfold of a betrayal and disappearance from long ago. Could there be a connection? Set over four mostly sleepless days, we see Venkat lose grasp of the narrative even as he loses grasp of his wife and daughter. Exquisitely translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Sakina’s Kiss is a delicate, precise meditation on the persistence of old biases—and a rattled masculinity—in India’s changing social and political landscape. Ingeniously crafted, Vivek Shanbhag interrogates the space between truth and perception in this unforgettable foray into the minefield of family life.