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Harbart
- Title
- Harbart / Nabarun Bhattacharya ; translated from the Bengali by Sunandini Banerjee ; with an afterword by Siddhartha Deb.
- Author
- Bhaṭṭācārya, Nabāruṇa
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-5251 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 122 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "This beloved cult novel--about a young man who makes a business of relaying messages from the dead--is now in a sparkling English translation. Poor, poor, hard-luck Herbert Sarkar: born into a fancy Calcutta family but cursed from birth (his philandering movie director father is killed in a car crash and his mother dies soon after, when he's still just a baby), he is taken as an orphan into his uncle's house, only to fall further and further down the family totem pole. Despite good looks ('Hollywood-ish, Leslie Howard-ish') and native talents, he is scorned by all but his kind aunt. Poor Herbert: so lovable but so little loved. Cheated of his inheritance, living on the roof in cast-off clothing, he pines for love, but all is woe: his own nephews beat him up. At twenty, however, he suddenly seems to possess the gift of speaking with the dead. Harbert is bathed in glory. From less than zero to starry heights--what an apotheosis. The wheel of fortune turns again, all too soon... Legendary, scathingly satiric, wildly energetic, deeply tender, Harbart is an Indian masterwork"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1451
- Uniform Title
- Hārabārṭa. English
- New Directions paperbook ; 1451.
- Alternative Title
- Hārabārṭa.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published as Herbert in 1994 by Deys Publishers, Calcutta"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5251
- ISBN
- 9780811224734
- 0811224732
- LCCN
- 2019004325
- OCLC
- 1086404496
- Author
- Bhaṭṭācārya, Nabāruṇa, author.
- Title
- Harbart / Nabarun Bhattacharya ; translated from the Bengali by Sunandini Banerjee ; with an afterword by Siddhartha Deb.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; 1451New Directions paperbook ; 1451.
- Added Author
- Banerjee, Sunandini, translator.Deb, Siddhartha, 1970- writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5251