{"product_id":"railsong-a-novel","title":"Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya","description":"\u003cp\u003eA breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the heartwarming story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine, and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfazed by the everyday discriminations around her she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open-sometimes guilelessly-to her nation's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac, and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism, and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • Author: Rahul Bhattacharya • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Format: Hardcover • ISBN: 9781639736225 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45357815627820,"sku":"9781639736225","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/9781639736225.jpg?v=1772657086","url":"https:\/\/cedarleafbooks.com\/products\/railsong-a-novel","provider":"Cedar Leaf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}