{"product_id":"t9gh438l2in5","title":"Talashnama : The Quest by Ismail Darbesh [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet in Sadnahati, a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTalashnama\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the story of Riziya, an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque - an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers. Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIsmail Darbesh's debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTalashnama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V. Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in today's India.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328200356090,"sku":"T9GH438L2IN5","price":510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/T9GH438L2IN5.jpg?v=1730142741","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/t9gh438l2in5","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}