{"product_id":"egrets-while-war-9789373074641","title":"Egrets While War","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tishani Doshi\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\u003eEgrets, While War, award-winning writer Tishani Doshi's fifth poetry collection, is alive with birds - woodpeckers and golden orioles, lapwings and 'grey-hooded crows', pigeons and egrets and the Ramayana's kraunca. These are creatures that know not pristine lands, but terror-fields ravaged by famine and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmidst such wreckage, they become prayers and prophecies, omens and oracles, messengers of gods and winged-gods themselves, holding within their wildly beating hearts news of an afterlife - 'Someone said, when children die, they become birds \/ in heaven.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary collection that navigates the deep entanglements between massacre, ageing and memory, Egrets, While War tells of a world where exile and extinction press close - 'The dirge of loss recovery \/ loss loss loss continues' - but it offers, too, against the odds, a possibility of coming out alive: bedazzled, birdlike and blue-throated. 'Now scream,' Tishani Doshi tells us, 'now sing.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers India","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47997087711383,"sku":"9789373074641","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789373074641.webp?v=1783577496","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/egrets-while-war-9789373074641","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}