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“subimal misra”

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  • Wild Animals Prohibited

    by Subimal Misra ...
    Translated by Venkateswar Ramaswamy ...

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale

    Two Anti-Novels

    by Subimal Misra ...
    Translated by Venkateswar Ramaswamy ...
    First U.S. publication of the Bengali William S. Burroughs. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Animals Prohibited

    Stories/Anti-Stories

    by Subimal Misra, V. Ramaswamy ...
    Audacious experimentalist and self-declared anti-writer, Subimal Misra is the master of contemporary alternative Bengali literature and anti-establishment writing. This collection brings together twenty-five stories that record the dark history of violence and degeneration in the Bengal of the seventies and eighties. The mirror that Misra holds up to society breaks every canon of rectitude with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Earth Quakes

    Late Anti-Stories

    by Subimal Misra, V. Ramaswamy ...
    Subimal Misra - anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental 'anti-writer' - was a literary genius, and among India's greatest contemporary masters. Misra's works are confrontational, and challenge and provoke readers morally, politically, and in their expectations of literature. The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories brings together his final creations: twenty stories written between 1991 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wild Animals Prohibited

    Stories, Anti-stories

    by Subimal Misra ...
    'Subimal Misra may be the most important Bengali writer alive whom you have never heard of.' - The Statesman'Long before Roberto Bolano, Misra had captured the disturbing, enigmatic landscape of the counterculture in a way that is subversive without being pretentious, Indian without being exotic, and somehow both contemporary and classic at once.' - The New Indian ExpressAudacious experimentalist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale

    Two Anti-Novels

    by Subimal Misra, V. Ramaswamy ...
    Subimal Misra - anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental 'anti-writer' - is a contemporary master, and among India's greatest living authors. This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale is a novella about a tea-estate worked turned Naxalite named Ramayan Chamar, who gets arrested during a worker's strike and is beaten up and killed in custody. But every time the author attempts to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Golden Gandhi Statue From America

    by Subimal Misra ...
    An unemployed young man is invited to his lover's wedding and decides to gift her a bottle of his own blood. Rumours of a great big flood or the end of days or a rebellion of refugees in Calcutta fly through the country. Haran majhi's starved widow's corpse floats down rivers and swamps and drains as the nation awaits eagerly the unveiling of the golden Gandhi statue from America. The early ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Sandal Trees & Other Stories

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