When Raina swears never to see Vihaan's face again, he pledges to put it on every hoarding in Ahmedabad — so that on the day she drives to her wedding, he is everywhere she looks. 100 hoardings. ₹10 crore. 1 year. ZIDD! is the roller-coaster journey of two nineteen-year-olds — Vihaan, a college dropout, and Parth, a jobless hustler. They start with thirty-five rupees. And spend it on bhajiya.

ZIDD! is written by Hetansh Desai, founder of Fantasticals, a fiction imprint based in Ahmedabad. ZIDD! is his debut novel — the first in a slate of stories he plans to publish over the coming years.

No — Vihaan and Parth are fictional. But the world they hustle through is very real: the hoarding business, the rejections, the jugaad, and the arithmetic of starting up in India with nothing but nerve. Readers who have ever chased something everyone told them was too big will recognise a lot of themselves in it.

Coming-of-age drama with a strong dose of humour. It is a friendship-and-ambition story — not a romance. If you enjoy fast, funny, big-hearted fiction rooted in middle-class India, you are the reader we wrote it for.

The paperback runs to 308 pages.

ZIDD! is a complete, standalone story — no cliffhangers, no homework. There is no sequel planned, but it is the first of many novels from Fantasticals. The next book is already in the works. Follow us on social media to hear about it first.

Yes, entirely. ZIDD! is written to be read by everyone from a fifteen-year-old to their grandparents. The humour is naughty but never vulgar, there is no explicit content, and the language stays clean. Teachers, parents, and students can all read it — and argue about who Vihaan and Parth remind them of.

ZIDD! is written in English, with the natural sprinkling of Hindi and Gujarati that its world speaks in. If you have grown up in India, you will not need a glossary. If you have not, context does all the work.

ZIDD! is available in three formats: paperback, e-book (including Kindle), and audiobook. Same story, three ways to enjoy it.

Yes — ZIDD! is available on Kindle. If you buy the e-book directly from fantasticals.in, you will receive it as a PDF, which you can read on practically any device.

Yes — the paperback + e-book bundle is available at checkout, so you can start reading tonight while the paperback is on its way.

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We ship everywhere in India. International shipping is not available yet — but the e-book is available worldwide, instantly.

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