{"product_id":"9781645605317","title":"On Deerback To A Sunset Unknown","description":"This powerful work, of about a hundred and twenty pages, is a compact lyrical narrative, with a tight structure that blends worlds of fairytales with social reality of the Earth. The language of the novel is sheer poetry, and like poetry is sensitive to multiple interpretations and impressions. The idiom in its lyricism and quaint colloquiality is extremely difficult, challenging easy translation. Only, I have tried to get closer to the original. \u003cem\u003eHarina...\u003c\/em\u003e is the second book by the novelist. It connects thematically to both its predecessor \u003cem\u003eShun Sange\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSamayika Sandhi\u003c\/em\u003e (a temporary truce with zero) and successor \u003cem\u003eSunaputra Loke\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe People of\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSunaput\u003c\/em\u003e). While the first book discusses absurdity of existence and meaninglessness of life through the life's story of an unemployed youth, handled with humour, \u003cem\u003eSunaput... \u003c\/em\u003etakes up repeated government sponsored\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003edisplacements of a forest and hill community of southern Odisha on a larger scale and the subsequent uprising of a violent movement. The author has often expressed that he was unsure about his career as a writer, and his readership. \u003cem\u003eSunaput\u003c\/em\u003e... brought him the prestigious Bhubaneswar Book Fair Award (1992), dispelling irreversibly any such cynicism.  ---Lipipuspa Nayak \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Eagle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48530932859121,"sku":"9781645605317","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781645605317_p0.jpg?v=1786311930","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781645605317","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}