The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers - Softcover

Banerjee, Sarnath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014400108X ISBN 13: 9780144001088

Publisher: Penguin Random House India, 2023

Synopsis

Inspired by the legend of the Wandering Jew, this second work of fiction from India’s foremost graphic novelist is an irreverent tale of illicit sex and drunken religiosity, which unravels new riddles with each reading.

Eighteenth-century Calcutta. The second city of the Empire is teeming with scandalous gossip and rumor. Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti, Sephardic Jew from Syria and trader in novelties such as corsets, aphrodisiacs and zebras, befriends the British officers and the local elite by day and records their escapades by night in a leather-bound journal.

1950s Paris. A battered copy of the journal surfaces in a hole-in-the-wall antique shop in Montmartre.

London, 2002. A phone rings in the East End, late at night, announcing a death and an inheritance: a silver lighter, a vintage motorcycle, an ancient radio and The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers.

What follows is a bizarre chain of events involving eccentric zamindars, a decadent aristocrat with a passion for lady footballers, a psychic cartographer, a haunted office building and, at the center of it all, Digital Dutta, neighborhood historian and keeper of secrets.

About this title

About the Author

Sarnath Banerjee studied image and communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Presently he is working on a comic book on the nineteeth-century eccentricities of feudal Calcutta and Route 36, a multi-plot located on the upper deck of a double-decker night bus in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Random House India
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014400108X
• ISBN 13: 9780144001088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280