{"product_id":"the-life-and-times-of-banka-harichandan","title":"The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tremendous portrait of the hopes and horrors, the threads of delicate perception and the pangs of fear and illusion, of a growing boy's life in a provincial town in Odisha. Banka Harichandan returns us to the unique atmosphere, at once particular and universal, of our own childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003e- Chandrahas Choudhury, Author of \u003cem\u003eArzee the Dwarf\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Country Is Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDipti Ranjan Pattanaik creates a masterly tale of coming of age in Odisha’s pious, rustic, heartlands. Deftly translated into English from Odia, \"The Life\u003cbr\u003e\r\nand Times of Banka Harichandan\" carries the reader into a delightfully immersive experience of young Banka’s heady confrontation with adolescence—and with the relentless world of grown-ups…. Dispassionate and compassionate at the same time, ‘Banka Harichandan’ is a heart-warming tribute to the eternal reenactment of growing up.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003e- Paul Zacharia, Author of \u003cem\u003eBhaskara Patellar and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Reflections of a Hen in Her Last Hour and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn this tour-de-force of a coming-of-age narrative, the story of an ordinary but precocious boy named Banka Harichandan is told afresh, using a mixture of childhood perception, idiolect, and anecdotes. The stories evoke a child’s restless and questioning mind constantly pushing against the restrictive limits of his placid and conformist times.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePresented in a series of discrete tales, the narrative—best thought of as a ‘composite novel’—takes the reader on an odyssey through the whole gamut of emotions that light up the passage from innocence to experience in a small-town, lower-middle-class setting. Unfolding at a leisurely pace and studded with epiphanies, \u003cem\u003eThe Life and Times of Banka Harichandan\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable contribution from Odisha to literature centred on children.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46604965511378,"sku":"bca8f865-d4ee-397a-ac8b-57b70f4eec9e","price":11.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_bbfc9603-70f4-4c73-909a-ef4bd062964f.jpg?v=1762423401","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/the-life-and-times-of-banka-harichandan","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}