Mr Gupta's Hardware Store

Mr Gupta's Hardware Store
A K Karla
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
28 Jul 2020 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781838594732
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The hardware store is at the centre of the lives of four Indian immigrants: ' Vasuman ' Mr' Gupta, his beautiful wife, Meera, his employee, Chandu Kumar, and Chandu' s tiny wife, Babita. Set in 1970s suburban London, the store is the apple of Mr Gupta' s eye, and he craves Englishness as much as Meera opposes it. She longs for the sights and sounds of home, India, although, as Babita says, the issue of home becomes more complex as time goes on. Meera mourns the man she married, Babita longs for a child, Chandu detests his spiteful employer, and Mr Gupta learns the lessons of humility. With artfulness and guile, the metaphysical twists throughout, revealing a destiny over which there is little control
As a second-generation migrant, A. K. KARLA has first-hand knowledge of the ' foreigners' life, and an obsession with difference, the meaning of belonging, and the incessant, often unconscious search for a homeland that can no longer be found. A. K also writes psychological fiction under the pen-name Jack Duval.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838594732
Published: 28 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Matador
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384

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