Bhattacharya Nabarun - Beggars Bedlam - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal India. Beggar's Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and part a reconstruction of lost Bengali history Nabarun Bhattacharya's masterpiece is a jubilant fizzing wire of subaltern anarchy and insurrection. Marshall Bhodi Sarkar and his lieutenant Sarkhel surreptitiously dig on the banks of the Ganges River looking for crude oil reserves. Instead they unearth curved daggers rusty broadswords and a Portuguese cannon. Bhodi is an occasional military man and the lead sorcerer of the secret black - magic sect named Choktar. He joins forces with the flying Flaperoos men with a predilection for alcohol and petty vandalism to declare outright war against the Marxist Leninist West Bengal government. In a bloodless revolution that is fascinating in its utter implausibility a motley crew of yet more implausible characters come together in a magic - realist fictional remapping of Calcutta.
Title: Beggars Bedlam
Author(s): Bhattacharya Nabarun
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803093789
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 11/4/2024
Series: The India List
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction