{"product_id":"battles-of-our-own-paperback","title":"Battles of Our Own - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Indian 'industrial novel' from the winner of the 1990 Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJagadish Mohanty's Battles of Our Own is a rare work of modern Odia and Indian fiction. It seeks to delineate a world that is off the grid. Its action unfolds in the remote and non-descript Tarbahar Colliery-a fictional name for the over hundred-year-old open-cast Himgiri Rampur coal mine in the hinterland of western Odisha. A work of gritty realism in its portrayal of a dark and dangerous underworld where coal is extracted, the novel poignantly reveals the primeval struggle between man and brute nature.\u003cbr\u003e\nOffering a complete experience of the 'industrial novel'-face offs between trade unions and management, trade union rivalry, and clandestine deals between enemy camps-this work brings alive Mohanty's literary genius, which takes us to a world beyond the simplistic binary division between the worker and the master. The novel unravels a complex, fractious, and nuanced picture of the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis sensitive and evocative rendering by Himansu S. Mohapatra and Paul St-Pierre captures the thrill, beauty, horror and tragedy of this fictional tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39818685841474,"sku":null,"price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/712eu60Ow0L.jpg?v=1655476857","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/battles-of-our-own-paperback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}