{"product_id":"do-not-go-to-the-jungle","title":"Do Not Go to the Jungle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA nightwatchman at a sawmill on the edge of a forest tries to forge a bond with a lone fox; a mysterious woman arrives on a night train in the town of Madampi, leaving in her wake lovers withering and paralysed; the great communist leader ‘AKG’ mistakenly boards the general compartment of the Malabar Express and is horrified by the scene that meets his eye; a lonely station master at a derelict railway station erects on the platform a stuffed doll in his own image; a migrant labourer reads out his PhD thesis to the camels he’s herding in the Gulf; Isa is declared dead from Covid in Dubai and deported to India, where ghosts are unwelcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShihabuddin Poithumkadavu’s ‘socio-horror’ writings, as he calls them, dissect the hair-raising manipulations of power. Moving seamlessly between the real and the surreal, these finely crafted stories shine a light on the anxieties of the disenfranchised, the would-be preys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMacabre as they are, Shihabuddin’s prose is also replete with tender, heart-warming beauty—as in life, so in these tales, the light is never quite far from the dark and the unsavoury. Making Shihabuddin Poithumkadavu’s work accessible to the English-reading public for the very first time, J. Devika’s stellar translation of his stories marks the arrival of a world-class writer in a new language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EKA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39635316670530,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/18_bdb20009-1356-46b9-b6db-89b7db4b05c3.jpg?v=1641308489","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/do-not-go-to-the-jungle","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}