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ONE SMALL VOICE - SANTANU BHATTACHARYA TASCHENBUCH

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BOWKER
VOLCANO PRIZE AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF THE YEAR  'One of the best debuts this year' Guardian 
'An intoxicating portrait of modern India ... Terrific' Daily Mail    'Hugely engaging  written
with verve  intelligence and compassion' Irish Times  
____________________________________________   India  1992. The country is ablaze with riots.
In Lucknow  ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter
the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye.  As he approaches adulthood 
Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school  good degree 
good job  good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties  he begins to question
whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends  Syed and Shruti  are
asking the same questions : together  buoyed by the freedom of the big city  they are rewriting
their stories.  But as the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across the country  and their
friendship becomes the rock they all cling to  this new life suddenly seems fragile. And before
Shabby can chart his way forward  he must reckon with the ghosts of his past . . .  
____________________________________________    'A joy to read  a full universe of feeling  an
effortless page-turner by a born storyteller ' Max Porter  author of Grief is the Thing with
Feathers    'Devastating and intimate   and political and radical all at the same time.
Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless' Nikesh Shukla   'A wonderful  timely
contribution to world literature' Tsitsi Dangarembga  author of This Mournable Body

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