The publishers that have taken home the fiction award to date have been Soft Skull, Archipelago, Melville House, New York Review of Books, New Directions, Yale University Press, And Other Stories and Open Letter, “Ghachar Ghochar” is published by Penguin, yes there’s been a big one before but c’mon Penguin stop raining on somebody else’s party!!! Let’s state the obvious (might have to be a standard opening line for this series!), the Best Translated Book Award is for the small independent publishers to highlight their wares. Today I look at “Ghachar Ghochar” by Vivek Shanbhag (Translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur). A compilation comprising the most incisive original and evocative voices to come out of Karnataka in the last two decades In Sirigannada the wealth that is Kannada eminent writer Vivek Shanbhag has brought together essays fiction and poetry that best represent the last two decades of literature in this language lush with meaning and nuanceSignificantly writers in Kannada have received the highest number of Jnanpith Awards and this compilation amply demonstrates why they been singled out time after time for that distinction The anthology includes established litterateurs like UR Ananthamurthy Girish Karnad and Chandrashekhar Kambar as well as newer writers such as SunandaKadame They have tackled a wide range of issues globalization caste displacement reality shows that reflect the dramatic social and economic changes that have taken place over the last twenty yearsSrigannada is an anthology that holds a mirror before the diverse cultures and many societies that exist within the contemporary Kannada world 310 pp.My second post in my series “Why xxx can not win the Best Translated Book Award”. IT IS A FABLE FOR MODERN LIVING THAT WILL RESONATE EVERYWHERE.
TOLD IN CLEAR COMPELLING PROSE, AND UNDERSCORED BY WARMTH AND HUMOUR, GHACHAR GHOCHAR IS A CAPTIVATING AND UNSETTLING STORY ABOUT THE SHIFTING MEANING-AND CONSEQUENCES-OF FINANCIAL GAIN IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA. THE FAMILY'S WORLD BECOMES "GHACHAR GHOCHAR'-A NONSENSE PHRASE THAT, TO THE RESTLESS, UNNAMED NARRATOR OF THE BOOK, COMES TO MEAN SOMETHING ENTANGLED BEYOND REPAIR. IN THIS TRANSFORMATIVE NOVEL BY THE ACCLAIMED KANNADA WRITER VIVEK SHANBHAG, A FAMILY'S UNEXPECTED ASCENT FROM AN ANT-RIDDEN SHACK TO MIDDLE-CLASS LIVING SKILFULLY PEELS AWAY THE VENEER OF AN ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY. "WHEN AN IMPOVERISHED BUT CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY UNDERGOES AN ALMOST MIRACULOUS CHANGE IN FORTUNE, OLD AND TRUSTED CERTAINTIES ARE UNDERMINED: ALLEGIANCES AND DESIRES REALIGN, A MARRIAGE COLLAPSES, AND TENSIONS BUILD UNSTOPPABLY TOWARDS A DEVASTATING CONFLICT.
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