{"product_id":"9781555973872","title":"Operation Monsoon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Shona Ramaya's tough, lyrical, and ironic stories of a globalized India, pop culture and history fuse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen you bring on the rain, everything changes, my grandmother had said. It's not the same place anymore. The rain takes over.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a globalized community of merging cultures, \u003ci\u003eOperation Monsoon\u003c\/i\u003e offers an India where Hindu epics are broadcast as soap operas and kidney donations have supplanted reincarnation. These intricate, multilayered accounts show how people use stories to make sense of their lives in an incomprehensible world. A girl romanticizes about a distant cousin, a terrorist in exile, amid the intoxicating Calcutta monsoons. A crippled woman runs a matchmaking agency on the Internet. An IT consultant finds himself on a strange journey in America as he enters the shadow world of \"bodyshopping.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShona Ramaya, praised by \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"born storyteller\" and by Mira Nair as a writer who \"has the rare talent of knowing her characters so well that when you finish the book, you feel they have spoken to you,\" presents an India of radical transitions, exploring junctures where history or myth cross paths with contemporary events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055519383792,"sku":"9781555973872","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555973872_p0.jpg?v=1763754739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555973872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}