Once it flowers
Shukla, Vinod Kumar
Once it flowers - Gurugram: Harper Perennial, 2014. - 329p.: pbk: 19cm.
Includes an interview with Vinod Kumar Shukla.
A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky, and along with it, this intensely poetic novel opens up to the inner world of a dozen characters: Guruji, his wife, their two children, the village watchman, the tailor, the teashop owner at the railway station and the stationmaster. There is also the worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan, and his wife, who listens to the radio because nothing else will fill the emptiness in her life. A dreamlike novel that is an extraordinary evocation of modern India.
https://harpercollins.co.in/product/once-it-flowers/
9789350297193
Hindi Fiction
Hindi literature
English translation
Village
Schoolhouse
Police station
Poetic novel
Dream-like novel
Modern India
891.43371 / SHU
Once it flowers - Gurugram: Harper Perennial, 2014. - 329p.: pbk: 19cm.
Includes an interview with Vinod Kumar Shukla.
A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky, and along with it, this intensely poetic novel opens up to the inner world of a dozen characters: Guruji, his wife, their two children, the village watchman, the tailor, the teashop owner at the railway station and the stationmaster. There is also the worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan, and his wife, who listens to the radio because nothing else will fill the emptiness in her life. A dreamlike novel that is an extraordinary evocation of modern India.
https://harpercollins.co.in/product/once-it-flowers/
9789350297193
Hindi Fiction
Hindi literature
English translation
Village
Schoolhouse
Police station
Poetic novel
Dream-like novel
Modern India
891.43371 / SHU
