Once it flowers

By:

Shukla, Vinod Kumar

Contributor(s):

Khanna, Satti [Translator]

Publication details: Gurugram: Harper Perennial, 2014.Description: 329p.: pbk: 19cmISBN:

9789350297193

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.43371 SHU

Summary: 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/

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	891.43371 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		033129

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/

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