Beggar's Bedlam by Nabarun Bhattacharya (Hardcover) (PREORDER)

Fiction - Dystopian - World Literature - India Translated by: Rijula Das RELEASE DATE: 7/6/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) 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–L