{"product_id":"absolute-jafar-9789369897025","title":"Absolute Jafar","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sarnath Banerjee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harpercollins India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighu is getting older. Badminton has replaced judo, irritation has replaced anger, metabolism has slowed down. Yet, some things remain: the inability to take a cab, anxieties about the digital universe and panic for the future. So Brighu walks. Unceasingly, through known and unknown terrains, with the pointlessness of a detective without a case. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Indo-Pak romance withstands years of toxic nationalism between two hostile countries, only to unravel in a third, in Europe. Jafar, born of that romance, inherits a history he has no control over. As he grows up in Berlin, his father, Brighu, desperate to hold on to the fantasies of a fading home, tells him bedtime stories: of sultans and jinns, of street food and eccentric cousins, of Delhi, Calcutta and Karachi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in a world where bureaucracies and borders shape human relationships, Sarnath Banerjee's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAbsolute Jafar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a poignant meditation on belonging and becoming. Perhaps the author's most personal work yet, it is a bittersweet rhapsody, rich in humanity, wit and imagination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46879363956887,"sku":"9789369897025","price":520.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789369897025.webp?v=1770198212","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/absolute-jafar-9789369897025","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}