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“Twenty-five years ago, acclaimed writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai presented the world with an India wres-tling with the simultaneous formation and partition of its national and traditional identities. Today, G. B. Prabhat has provocatively expanded the purview of world literature with Eimona, a novel that depicts another psychic partition defining contemporary India. Between the nouveaux riches enraptured with the magic of the stock market and modern media, and those left behind by the new world economy, the reader glimpses a society all too willing to gate its communities and sell off its sense of history. Ultimately, Eimona is much more than an essential addition to Indian literature, as it illuminates a brave new world everyone must come to terms with. For we all come from Eimona.”


Kevin Carollo
Professor of World Literature and Writing
Minnesota State University Moorhead

“Eimona is a chilling account of a future that is almost upon us: sophisticated technology and global finance altering the fabric of human relationships to create a world where each individual is alone in a virtual space and nature is irrelevant unless captured as a computer screen-saver. A timely fable which might make our high-achievers pause and think.”

Meenakshi Mukherjee
India's leading literary critic and
Sahitya Akademi Award winner

“Eimona leaves us with disturbing thoughts and questions.”


-The Hindu Business Line

“….the book is a fun read, full of ironies and an undercurrent of humour.”


-The New Indian Express


“a past master’s winning gem”


-Yahoo!


“…it gives us a chilling glimpse of what is to come…it gives all of us reason to pause and ask if we really want to race ahead so fast.”


-Deccan chronicle

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Blogger Ramana said...

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10:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

eimona , a novel by GB Prabhat

Review by Ramana Dukkipati



GB Prabhat through his latest novel eimona makes his readers pause and ponder.

What is eimona? It is a gripping tale told in a racy style with pungent satiric humour. It is a tale about all around us, about all of us- the new age kids in the new age economy who are the new age economy multi-millionaires in young urbane India, whose fortunes and personal wealth obscenely rises and falls everyday inexorably linked to the stock market ticker tape.

So what is eimona? It is a world that is topsy-turvey, where the normally abnormal is normal and the normally normal is abnormal. Well… that is the world of eimona- the reverse of anomie, an affliction where the social interaction is markedly different from the normal social norms. So when the normal social norms are abnormal, that is the world of eimona. It is not somewhere-over-the-horizon-future menacingly racing towards us. It is the present – pervasive all around us.

The Protagonist of the novel Subbu, an 80 year old, watches with amusement and dismay this present day world of eimona. He lives in Chennai with his grandson Bharat and his beautiful wife Indu, both young and working in Multi-national companies and their 8-year-old daughter Maya. Bharat is always indecisive like a Buridan’s ass which died of starvation because it couldn’t decide which bale of hay it wants to eat. Indu is strong willed and a winner always. Both Bharat and Indu have stock options, earn more than 150000 dollars each in salary. They watch everyday their stock price and calculate the wealth , not the combined wealth of both but each individual’s wealth. Maya is full of childhood innocence and is attracted to nature, loves to play chess and snakes and ladders and dislikes chatting online or playing games on computers. So she is diagnosed by a shrink as suffering from anomie. Subbu fiercely tries to protect her. The author ends the book with a brilliant twist.

The author’s views on free markets, the poor , capitalism are aired through Subbu. The principle pillar of capitalists’ and free economy protagonists’ theory and practice that rewards will be proportionate to the value people create and inequality is the natural result, Subbu asks, “ so what happens to people who begin in capitalism with nothing in their pockets?”

The book makes the readers reflect about themselves and an urge to slow down in this maddening race to success and prosperity overwhelms.

A must read book.

5:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just like the style you took with this subject. It's not every day that you simply find a subject so to the point and informative.

3:21 PM  
Anonymous parithimathi said...

I am in Chennai. Where can I buy the book from? (Landmark link goes somewhere else)

1:38 AM  
Blogger Prabhat said...

The book is available in Kindle (electronic) form and hardcover on Amazon at the following link:
http://www.amazon.com/Eimona-ebook/dp/B003A83ERK/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1253946801&sr=1-1

The hardcover is available in India on flipkart at the following link:
http://www.flipkart.com/eimona-1595071423/p/itmdyk6zyybuqfhy?pid=9781595071422

6:04 AM  
Blogger Prabhat said...

IN INDIA, THE LOW-PRICED PAPERBACK EDITION (Rs.250) IS AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS:

http://www.buymeabook.com/books/eimona-38952

http://www.indiabookmart.com/Book_detail.asp?Bid=Eimona&catId=8188811807

6:28 AM  

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