Fairy Tales at Fifty

Fairy Tales at Fifty
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9789351363132
ISBN-13 : 9351363139
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Book Synopsis Fairy Tales at Fifty by : Upamanyu Chatterjee

Download or read book Fairy Tales at Fifty written by Upamanyu Chatterjee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nirip on the cusp of fifty is not happy with his life. His father is an ogre and his mother a witch. He is not happy with that either. His sort of half-sister is a sort of half-man. A really close relative turns out to be a serial killer. He is not happy sleeping with his chauffeur's wife. Neither is she. Then, for his amusement, his father arranges a cricket match between rival dacoit teams in which some of the players are shot dead. Who could be happy in such circumstances? Days before his fiftieth birthday, with Nirip still wondering whether he should go ahead and have himself kidnapped so that he can make some money, he discovers, most unexpectedly, that he is not the biological child of his parents. Witty, macabre, sad, cruel, unforgivingly insightful, Fairy Tales at Fifty is part adventure tale, part nightmare, part acid trip---and throughout a triumph of fiction.


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