{"product_id":"blood-brothers-a-family-saga","title":"Blood Brothers: A Family Saga","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlood Brothers is M.J. Akbars amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family - based on his own - and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubiks Cube of migrant Bihari workers, Hindus and Muslims; Bengalis poor and bhadralok; and Sahibs who live in the safe, foreign world of Victoria Jute Mill. Into this scattered inhabitation enters a child on the verge of starvation, Prayaag, who is saved and adopted by a Muslim family, converts to Islam and takes on the name of Rahmatullah. As Rahmatullah knits Telinipara into a community, friendship, love trust and faith are continually tested by the cancer of riots. Incidents - conversion, circumcision, the arrival of plague of electricity - and a fascinating array of characters - the ultimate Brahmin, Rahmatullahs friend Girija Maharaj, the workers leader, Bauna Sardar, the storyteller, Talat Mian, the poet- teacher, Syed Ashfaque, the smiling mendicant, Burha Deewana, the sincere Sahib, Simon Hogg, and then the questioning, demanding third generation of the author and his friend Kamala - interlink into a narrative of social history as well as a powerful memoir. Blood Brothers is a chronicle of its age, its canvas as enchanting as its narrative, a personal journey through change as tensions build, stretching the bonds of a lifetime to breaking point the demanding, in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its last chapters, written in a bare-bones, unemotional style, are the most moving as the author searches for hope amid raw wounds with a surgeons scalpel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roli Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45875467616454,"sku":"DADAX8174364390","price":6.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/21NNroY1VPL.jpg?v=1779607488","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/blood-brothers-a-family-saga","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}