Ghachar Ghochar

Bangalore, present day. A young man¿s close-knit family is nearly destitute when his uncle founds a successful spice company, changing their fortunes overnight. As they move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house and try to adjust to a new way of life, allegiances realign; marriages are arranged and begin to falter; and conflict brews ominously in the background. Things become ¿ghachar ghochar¿¿a nonsense phrase uttered by one of the characters that comes to mean something tangled beyond repair, a knot that can¿t be untied. Elegantly written and punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and humor, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings¿and consequences¿of financial gain in contemporary India.