{"product_id":"once-it-flowers","title":"Once It Flowers -","description":"\u003cp\u003eA thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family is forced to seek shelter in the lock-up of an abandoned police station. The school house opens to the sky and this intensely poetic novel opens to the inner world of a dozen characters - guruji, his wife, their two children, the village watchman, the tailor, the teashop owner at the railway station, the station master. There is also the worldly-wise grocer, Jivrakhan and there is the grocers wife, who listens to the radio because nothing else will fill the emptiness in her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the background of the bustle triggered by the storm and the arrival of the rail road, the villagers some times hear the elders who play the song of existence. A multi-layered, intriguing novel that is at once magical and realistic, Once it Flowers is an extraordinary evocation of modern India.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinod Kumar Shukla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44266169172028,"sku":"9789350297193","price":375.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/once-it-flowers-9789350297193.jpg?v=1776841680","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/once-it-flowers","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}