{"product_id":"tall-tales-by-a-small-dog-paperback","title":"Tall Tales by a Small Dog - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOmair Ahmad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Every dog is a storyteller, but dogs do not write... So, once they find out you are a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriter, they will want to tell you their stories, ask you to put them down...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In my tongue they say you can never straighten a dog's tail. How much more difficult to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estraighten a dog's tales, then? And so I set them down for you in these pages... Only, be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewarned: these are the tales of a small dog, recorded. And all dogs are storytellers, and all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estorytellers are liars. Believe what you will of them, but believe at your own peril.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKallu, a mongrel of modest proportions who roams the streets of Gorakhpur, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas some stories to tell of his town. But dogs cannot be trusted to speak the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etruth, so the narrator of this collection-a web as complicated as the mess of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecables and electric wires suspended over the galis of Gorakhpur-tries to sift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efact from fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what is fact and what fantasy when a jailer escapes his own execution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand comes back home riding an elephant, claiming to have been pardoned by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueenVictoria?When the star pickpocket of Gorakhpur is bested by aWhite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etourist?When a young man falls in love with a street dog and uses him as a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweapon, and a gangster decides to wear an assassin's bullet round his neck?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen one Gorakhpuri boy walks all the way to China and comes face to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eface with Deng Xiaoping, and another is propelled to America by a smutty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emagazine?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a decade after his international bestseller The Storyteller's Tale, and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaward-winning Jimmy, the Terrorist, one of India's most distinctive authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereturns to fiction with a funny, quirky, unputdownable chain of stories about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe heroes, villains and oddballs of Gorakhpur, the legendary small town-as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efamous as it is notorious-in the heart of India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461156126898,"sku":"9789354475238","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ead2582ce0975aa1ad6651c1749f2f46.webp?v=1778942063","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/tall-tales-by-a-small-dog-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}