{"product_id":"book-29pt","title":"August 17","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the JCB Prize-winning author-translator duo of \u003cem\u003eMoustache\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for readers of political fiction: Arundhati Roy's \u003cem\u003eA God of Small Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Perumal Murugan's \u003cem\u003ePoonachi\u003c\/em\u003e, and Abraham Verghese's \u003cem\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A genre-defying, history-smashing novel' - SHAHNAZ HABIB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliant, and superbly translated' - TANUJ SOLANKI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 17 August 1947, the kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor declares itself a free nation, refusing to join India. In the years that follow, it becomes a republic of coups, betrayals and revolutions - chronicled by a shadowy informant known as the CID.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his eyes, S. Hareesh reimagines Kerala's history as an alternate world where the lines between fact and fiction, faith and power, sanity and madness blur beyond recognition. At once speculative history and sly metafiction, \u003cem\u003eAugust 17\u003c\/em\u003e explores how nations are built - and undone - by the stories they choose to believe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliant, subversive and darkly funny, this is a novel of astonishing scope and imagination. Rendered in Jayasree Kalathil's masterful translation, \u003cem\u003eAugust 17\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Hareesh - winner of the JCB Prize for \u003cem\u003eMoustache \u003c\/em\u003e- as one of the most daring and original voices in contemporary Indian fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67790253687088,"sku":"BD29pt","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-29pt","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}