A Little Distillery in Nowgong

Mathur, Ashok

ISBN 10: 1551522586 / ISBN 13: 9781551522586

Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, 2009

About this Item

8vo, 454 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Seller Inventory # 098490

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Little Distillery in Nowgong
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551522586
• ISBN 13: 9781551522586
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India beginning in the late 1800s. The narrative follows the Khargat family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India, to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles, to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America. This beautifully told, engaging novel, by the author of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize finalist The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, humanizes the politics of ethnicity, culture, and colonial rule.

About the Author

Ashok Mathur is the author of two previous novels, both published by Arsenal: Once Upon an Elephant and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar. He is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada.