A great Indian novel. Folded into the compressed, densely psychological portrait of this family is a whole universe.

Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

"[Shanbhag] is a master of inference and omission. What's most impressive about Ghachar Ghochar is how much intricacy and turmoil gets distilled into its few pages. A wise and skillful book."

Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal

"A classic tale of wealth and moral ruin and a parable about capitalism and Indian society."

The New Yorker

"Within the tight confines of a hundred pages or so, Shanbhag presents as densely layered a social vision of Bangalore as Edith Wharton did of New York in The House of Mirth.".