{"product_id":"egrets-while-war","title":"Egrets, While War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEgrets, While War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, award-winning writer Tishani Doshi's fifth poetry collection, is alive with birds - woodpeckers and golden orioles, lapwings and 'grey-hooded crows', pigeons and egrets and the Ramayana's kraunca. These are creatures that know not pristine lands, but terror-fields ravaged by famine and war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmidst such wreckage, they become prayers and prophecies, omens and oracles, messengers of gods and winged-gods themselves, holding within their wildly beating hearts news of an afterlife - 'Someone said, when children die, they become birds \/ in heaven.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn extraordinary collection that navigates the deep entanglements between massacre, ageing and memory, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEgrets, While War \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etells of a world where exile and extinction press close - 'The dirge of loss recovery \/ loss loss loss continues' - but it offers, too, against the odds, a possibility of coming out alive: bedazzled, birdlike and blue-throated. 'Now scream,' Tishani Doshi tells us, 'now sing.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43400977350691,"sku":null,"price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/71dxnNk_eiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785227021","url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/products\/egrets-while-war","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}