The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers by Sarnath Banerjee

The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers by Sarnath Banerjee

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.

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.His work has appeared in various magazines and newspapers. This is his first graphic novel.

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ISBN 13	9780144001088
ISBN 10	014400108X
Title	The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers
Author	Sarnath Banerjee
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House India
Year published	2023-12-04
Number of pages	280
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.