The Interloper (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 3)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>THE FINAL BOOK IN THE AWARD-WINNING CHANDAL JIBON SERIES</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After escaping a deadly bomb blast in the city's red-light area Jibon returns to the Jadavpur railway station having lost his memory. He is instantly recognised by those who live in and around the station-squatters rickshaw-drivers beggars. liquor vendors ragpickers. pickpockets-as the daring young man who rescued them many a time. However Jibon has become a stranger to himself. He is simply playing the role of Jibon. His past allegiant to the Naxalites is marked by bloodshed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He is in Calcutta of the mid-1970s a time when the Stoneman prowls the streets after midnight crushing the heads of homeless folk. This is the city where the rich refugees from East Pakistan have become even more affluent and the poor ones way more deprived. Women are swindled and brutalised with alarming frequency here; orphans are kidnapped from public places. The influence of the ultra-reds has waned and the clout of the reds and the Congress party is on the rise.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Masterfully translated by V. Ramaswamy </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Interloper</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is an evocative finale to Manoranjan Byapari's spectacular autobiographical trilogy.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Manoranjan Byapari writes in Bengali. Some of his important works include </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chhera Chhera Jibon Ittibrite Chandal Jibon</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and the Chandal Jibon trilogy. He taught himself to read and write at the age of twenty-four when he was in prison. He has worked as a rickshaw-puller a sweeper and a porter. Until 2018 he was working as a cook at the Hellen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Blind in West Bengal.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Translator</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>V. Ramaswamy is a literary translator of voices from the margins. His previous translations include </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories Anti-stories</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2019) all by the anti-establishment Bengali writer Subimal Misra.</span></p>