{"product_id":"railsong-a-novel","title":"Railsong: A Novel","description":"Longlisted for The Kalinga Literary Festival Book Prize in Fiction\n\n\"Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth.\" -Kamila Shamsie\n\n\"Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change.\" -Megha Majumdar\n\nA breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the heartwarming story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India.\n\nIn a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine, and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay.\n\nUnfazed by the everyday discriminations around her she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open-sometimes guilelessly-to her nation's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac, and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism, and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1639736220\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1639736220.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bhattacharya, Rahul\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41747536838714,"sku":"DBV.1639736220.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1639736220-0.jpg?v=1791952543","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/railsong-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}