Legal fiction : (Record no. 79214)
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| fixed length control field | 220429b2021 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789354227509 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fiction PAN-C |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pandey, Chandan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Legal fiction : |
| Remainder of title | a novel / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Chandan Pandey |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Collins Publishers |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 156p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 299.00 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | This is like Kafka in Deoria. Or Camus in the cow belt. But more accurate to say that Legal Fiction is an urgent, literary report about how truth goes missing in our land. I read it with a racing heart.-- Amitava Kumar, author of The LoversChandan Pandey, goes looking for the story that lurks just out of sight, getting under the skin of news headlines and extracting a story as compelling as it is devastating.-- Annie Zaidi, author of Prelude to a RiotChandan Pandey, has written a brilliant, gripping political novel. Legal Fiction is a nuanced, absorbing snapshot of our times -- it captures the minefield of hate politics, the intricate, almost invisible fault-lines in relationships, and the power of art in imagining a better society.-- Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit YouThe, a Hindi novel, was already destined to be a marker for this era. This translation fills a big gap, for no work initially written in English in India has scratched the surface of what Legal Fiction approaches the cold, dark centre of. Here, in the form of a thriller and the tone of an elegy, is a sharp look at a terrifying Indian -ism and the currents against it. Be ready for a heart of darkness.-- Tanuj Solanki, author of Diwali in MuzaffarnagarLegal fiction: A rule assuming as accurate something false. Often used to get around the provisions of constitutions and legal codes. A late-night phone call from his ex-girlfriend Anasuya forces writer Arjun Kumar to leave his wife and home in Delhi and travel to the mofussil town of Noma on the UP-Bihar border. Anasuya's husband, Rafique Neel, a college professor and theatre director, has mysteriously disappeared. Soon after he arrives, Arjun realises that things are not as they seem: the police are refusing to register a missing-persons case, Rafique's student Janaki has also disappeared, and the locals are determined to turn it into a case of 'love jihad'. And when Arjun begins to dig deeper, what he finds endangers him and everyone around him. Inspired by actual events from today's India, Legal Fiction is a brilliant existential thriller and a chilling parable of our times. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | FIC | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Fiction Section (For lending) | 29/04/2022 | 299.00 | 1 | Fiction PAN-C | 45166 | 10/01/2024 | 21/12/2023 | 29/04/2022 | Books |
