{"product_id":"half-blood-9789354470417","title":"Half-Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'You see, Moonie, I did a terrible thing for which I had to leave Bombay. I don't want to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eburden you, in this letter, with the details of my deed-or my life. It's a long story and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm not a man of words.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is 2009, more than a decade after Maya read this intriguing letter addressed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto her. The awkward, adopted child of an odd Bengali couple, she's now a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34-year-old journalist in an existential mess that she alleviates by smoking pot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand going on long walks with her latest boyfriend. But in order to find the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emeaning she craves, Maya must confront her past, and open a box of objects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe inherited. When she finally does, she's led on a startling, sparkling journey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of this journey is Burjor Elavia, a 'fifty-fifty', an 'Adhkachru'-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe illegitimate child of a Parsi man and a tribal woman-born in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enondescript village in Gujarat. In 1952, not yet eighteen, he made his way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto Bombay, where he lived a colourful life-promiscuous, reckless, involved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein a string of shady businesses, but also compassionate and a charmer. His\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egreatest achievement was an audacious venture for fifty-fifty Parsis like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehimself, many of them strugglers, some of them on the make and all of them\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeccentric. In their tangled, mixed-up, funny life stories, Maya tries to find her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeginnings-and maybe her future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the teeming, varied universe that is Bombay, Half-Blood is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eentertaining, full-blooded novel about dysfunctional families, plucky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurvivors, chancers, mavericks and good-hearted rogues. A celebration of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evitality, impurity and other true virtues of life, it is a marvellous debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354470417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.61d","brand":"Pronoti Datta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42038555410613,"sku":"9789354470417","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d4d79f1f-8717-4664-87bc-c84ce7dd558c.jpg?v=1649736925","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/half-blood-9789354470417","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}