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The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers
''The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers'' is a 2007 graphic novel by Indian graphic artist Sarnath Banerjee. It is the author's second graphic novel after ''Corridor'', which has been widely advertised as the first Indian graphic novel. Plot summary The novel reinvents the legend of The Wandering Jew as a Jewish merchant called Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti who once lived in 18th century Kolkata (Calcutta) and who recorded the scandalous affairs of its British administrators in a book called ''The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers''. Although it has several subplots, at its core the novel is about the narrator's quest to find this book, which his grandfather Pablo Chatterjee found at an old Jewish trinket shop in Montmartre, Paris, in the 1950s. Pablo's wife gave away the book, as well as her husband's other belongings, upon his death; the narrator tries to recover the book, which was one of his childhood favorites. The title of the graphic novel is the English translation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarnath Banerjee
Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the comics publishing house, Phantomville. Biography Banerjee was born in Calcutta and lives and works in Delhi, India. He studied image and communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His first novel, '' Corridor'' (2004), published by Penguin Books, India, was commissioned as a part of a fellowship awarded by the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago and marketed as India's first graphic novel. However, '' River of Stories'', a graphic novel by Orijit Sen published in 1994, actually holds this honor. His second novel, '' The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers'', was published in 2007. Sarnath has also provided illustrations for novels by other authors. He designed the cover for Upamanyu Chatterjee's novel, ''Weight Loss''. Gallery of Losers Sarnath's project, the Gallery of losers, was on display on billboards across the six Olympic Host Boroughs in East London. According to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |