{"product_id":"hawa-hawa-and-other-stories","title":"Hawa Hawa: and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of inventive and surprising short stories from one of India’s most prominent countercultural writers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Nabarun Bhattacharya, Subha Prasad Sanyal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964640391215,"sku":"9780857429827","price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780857429827.jpg?v=1771334859","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/hawa-hawa-and-other-stories","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}