Beggar's Bedlam

Beggar's Bedlam - Hardcover

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Beggar's Bedlam - Hardcover

Beggar's Bedlam - Hardcover

by Nabarun Bhattacharya
$21.00
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Book Overview

A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India.

Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and part a reconstruction of lost Bengali history, Nabarun Bhattacharya's masterpiece is a jubilant, fizzing wire of subaltern anarchy and insurrection.

Marshall Bhodi Sarkar and his lieutenant Sarkhel surreptitiously dig on the banks of the Ganges River looking for crude oil reserves. Instead, they unearth curved daggers, rusty broadswords, and a Portuguese cannon. Bhodi is an occasional military man and the lead sorcerer of the secret black-magic sect named Choktar. He joins forces with the flying Flaperoos--men with a predilection for alcohol and petty vandalism--to declare outright war against the Marxist-Leninist West Bengal government. In a bloodless revolution that is fascinating in its utter implausibility, a motley crew of yet more implausible characters come together in a magic-realist fictional remapping of Calcutta.
ISBN9781803093789
Author Nabarun Bhattacharya
PublisherSeagull Books
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages184
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Nabarun Bhattacharya

Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948-2014) was a prominent Bengali writer who enjoyed a cult following in his lifetime and beyond. A journalist from 1973 to 1991 at a foreign news agency, he gave up that career to become a full-time writer and was also a prolific poet. Subha Prasad Sanyal is a recipient of the Harvill-Secker Young Translator's Prize and a mentee in the National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorship. He has also translated Nabarun Bhattacharya's Hawa Hawa and Other Stories.

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