TY  - GEN
AU  - Shukla, Vinod Kumar
AU  - Khanna, Satti
TI  - Once it flowers
SN  - 9789350297193
U1  - 891.43371 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Gurugram
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Hindi Fiction
KW  - Hindi literature
KW  - English translation
KW  - Village
KW  - Schoolhouse
KW  - Police station
KW  - Poetic novel
KW  - Dream-like novel
KW  - Modern India
N1  - Includes an interview with Vinod Kumar Shukla
N2  - 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.

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