About the Book: Ghachar Ghochar
From a dingy, ant-infested house to a big bungalow in a posh part of the city, a family finds itself making a transition in many ways. The narrator, the son of house, is caught in the flux around him, and tries to make sense of the changing equations within the household. His only escape from all this are his visits to an old cafe, where he seeks answers in the wry wisdom of a waiter.Faithfully translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, and with great precision, Ghachar Ghochar is a powerful and ominous novel about family and how economics change their dynamics. As dark as it is profound, it leads you into a world where lives are as tangled as the thoughts in the human mind.............….
About the Authors: Vivek Shanbhag,Ramachandra R
Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim. The first of his books to appear in English, Ghachar Ghochar was excerpted in Grantas 2015 India issue......
