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One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B.

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Item Code: AZE910
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Author: C.P. Surendran
Language: ENGLISH
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 9789391125127
Pages: 370
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9.50x6.50 inch
Weight 410 gm
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About the Book
OSIP BALA KRISHNAN is a student at a boarding school in Kasauli, who falls in love with his English teacher, Elizabeth Named after the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam by his Stalinist grandfather with whom Osip shares a unique mental condition that often causes. him to hallucinate incidents of Russia in the mid-20th century-he is determined to find Elizabeth, after she disappears. In the process, Osip unravels the secrets of why his grandfather pretends he cannot remember his past.

Osip's journey is aided by his friend, Anand, a god-man on the make; Arjun Bedi, an iconoclastic writer disintegrating under harassment allegations; and the corpse of the school priest, which Osip and Anand kidnap to extort seed money for their adventures.

Through a clutch of dramatic characters, the plot traces and connects contemporary themes of transgressive relationships, gender politics, nationalism, individual freedom and group rights, fake news, and power, Sad, funny, and Insightful, the novel asks: Can a dysfunctional young man survive in a deranged world, our world?

About the Book
C.P. SURENDRAN is a poet, novelist, screenplay writer, and columnist. His latest volume of verse is Available Light (Collected Poems), preceded by Portraits of the Space We Occupy, Canaries on the Moon, Posthumous Poems, and Gemini II.

One Love and the Many Lives of Osip B. is his fourth novel. The earlier ones are Hodal, Lost and Found, and An Iron Harvest His columns have appeared in leading newspapers in India and abroad. He lives in Delhi.

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