{"product_id":"drown-all-the-refugees-9789373075211","title":"Drown All The Refugees","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tabish Khair\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt a literary event, when the narrator screams, 'Drown all the refugees,' he means every word. After all, he is all too familiar with displacement - his boyfriend Abdul was Palestinian; and his childhood best friend Pedro crossed India's borders illegally in search of a better life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNeither Abdul nor Pedro can return - for Abdul is dead and Pedro's whereabouts are now a mystery. That is, until Maria, the narrator's childhood nurse and Pedro's mother, turns to the occult to bring back her son. The person she recovers is not her exuberant young boy, but someone who is a husk of himself. What happened to Pedro during his journey to a distant land, or his passage back? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the narrator tries to answer this question, he sees that every revelation holds both violence and terror. A work of Gothic horror, with exquisite illustrations by Vikram Nayak, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDrown All the Refugees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Khair at his finest - assured and outraged. He rejects the reader's pity, the onlooker's distress, and asks instead for something more substantial, perhaps a reordering of a world in disarray.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48115618545815,"sku":"9789373075211","price":390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789373075211.webp?v=1786362235","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/drown-all-the-refugees-9789373075211","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}