{"product_id":"tall-tales-by-a-small-dog-9789354475238","title":"Tall Tales by a Small Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Every dog is a storyteller, but dogs do not write... So, once they find out you are a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriter, they will want to tell you their stories, ask you to put them down...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In my tongue they say you can never straighten a dog's tail. How much more difficult to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estraighten a dog's tales, then? And so I set them down for you in these pages... Only, be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewarned: these are the tales of a small dog, recorded. And all dogs are storytellers, and all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estorytellers are liars. Believe what you will of them, but believe at your own peril.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKallu, a mongrel of modest proportions who roams the streets of Gorakhpur, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas some stories to tell of his town. But dogs cannot be trusted to speak the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruth, so the narrator of this collection-a web as complicated as the mess of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecables and electric wires suspended over the galis of Gorakhpur-tries to sift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efact from fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what is fact and what fantasy when a jailer escapes his own execution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand comes back home riding an elephant, claiming to have been pardoned by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueenVictoria?When the star pickpocket of Gorakhpur is bested by aWhite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etourist?When a young man falls in love with a street dog and uses him as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweapon, and a gangster decides to wear an assassin's bullet round his neck?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen one Gorakhpuri boy walks all the way to China and comes face to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eface with Deng Xiaoping, and another is propelled to America by a smutty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emagazine?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a decade after his international bestseller The Storyteller's Tale, and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaward-winning Jimmy, the Terrorist, one of India's most distinctive authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturns to fiction with a funny, quirky, unputdownable chain of stories about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe heroes, villains and oddballs of Gorakhpur, the legendary small town-as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efamous as it is notorious-in the heart of India.\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 07\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354475238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.39d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omair Ahmad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43124545028277,"sku":"9789354475238","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f5bde01b-76f2-47a3-b7ca-d3f4bb4e7715.jpg?v=1694554073","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tall-tales-by-a-small-dog-9789354475238","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}