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THE ESCAPISTS OF J. MULLICK ROAD IBD

SPEAKING TIGER PUBLISHING PVT
07 / 2018
9789388070317
Inglês

Sinopse

&lsquo,Usha Ananda Krishna has a sparkling way with language.&rsquo,&mdash,The TelegraphIn the aftermath of a bizarre confrontation with Kalol Mondal&mdash,a small-time hustler and Party goon&mdash,Pinaki Bose, a timid Bengali babu, bumbles into the ambit of the savagely brilliant architect, Biren Roy. Dazzled by Biren&rsquo,s breadth of vision and utter contempt for the conventional, he commissions him to design a country house&mdash,committing the whole family&rsquo,s savings to it. But Biren, paralyzed by his grand ideals and his passion for perfection, is slowly sinking into a drunken torpor. And Pinaki, ignorant of the Party&rsquo,s involvement in all land deals, must endure not just Kalol Mondal&rsquo,s ominous presence while buying his plot, but more worryingly, his infatuation with Pinaki&rsquo,s young daughter.áSet in the bleak Communist Calcutta of the 1980s,The Escapists of J. Mullick Road is a wry meditation on a fabled city in physical and moral decline. Usha Ananda Krishna&rsquo,s subtly witty but compassionate take on the disparate lives that entwine over the building of a house is a tour de force of modern literary writing.á