Once it Flowers

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A novel that tells the true story of modern India in a style that’s inimitable thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the schoolteacher, who lives in the school building with his family, is forced to seek shelter in the lock-up of an abandoned police station. The schoolhouse opens to the sky, and this intensely poetic novel opens 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, the stationmaster. There is also the worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan, and there is the grocer’s wife, who listens to the radio because nothing else will fill the emptiness in her life.

In the background of the bustle triggered by the storm and the arrival of the railroad, the villagers sometimes hear the elders who play the song of existence. A multi-layered, intriguing novel that is at once magical and realistic, Once it Flowers is an extraordinary evocation of modern India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Satti Khanna

Satti Khann teaches Indian film and literature in the Department of Asian and African Languages and Literature at Duke University, USA. He also interprets the lives of contemporary Indian writers to an international audience through a series of translations and documentary films. A Window Lived in a Wall is the second work of Vinod Kumar Shukla's fiction to be translated by Khanna. His translation of Naukar ki Kamiz (The Servant's Shirt) was published by Penguin India in 1999.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vinod Kumar Shukla

Vinod Kumar Shukla, Hindi poet and fiction writer was born in 1937. He has over 20 publications to his credit. Shukla is a recipient of several awards including Shikhar Samman in 1995 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997 for this work. His works have been translated into Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam, English and German.

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Title
Once it Flowers
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789350297193
Length
336p.,
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