{"product_id":"banaras-talkies-9780143454595","title":"Banaras Talkies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Satya Vyas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ebury Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ebury Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Coming of Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBhagwandas Hostel at Banaras Hindu University can be mistaken as being like any other college hostel, but that would be a gross error. For, among the corridors of BD Hostel roam never-before-seen characters: Suraj the narrator, whose goal is to woo a girl, any girl; Anurag De, for whom cricket is life, literally, and Jaivardhan, whose melancholia gets him to answer every query with \u003ci\u003e'ghanta'\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eFollow the adventures of the three friends and others as they navigate undergraduate life in one of India's most vibrant colleges, plan to steal exam papers, struggle to speak to women, find friends in corridors lined with dirty linen, and forge lifelong bonds amid bad mess food. \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Hindi in 2015, \u003ci\u003eBanaras Talkies\u003c\/i\u003e has remained on the bestseller list since then. A slice-of-life novel, it captures college life with all its twists and turns. Written with the idiomatic flourish that is the hallmark of Banarasi colloquialism, this comic novel is one of India's great coming-of-age novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebury Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082458620055,"sku":"9780143454595","price":163.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143454595.webp?v=1769200929","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/banaras-talkies-9780143454595","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}