The Gardener'S Song
Rs. 395.00
The Burden Of Foreknowledge
Rs. 295.00
A Mirror Greens In Spring
Selina Sen
Rs. 395.00
It is 1984, and New Delhi is simmering with ethnic strife as anti-Sikh riots erupt after prime minister India Gandhi's assassination. This cataclysmic event serves as the backdrop to the day-to-day ordinariness of an immigrant Bengali family's life. Chhobi, the elder, sensitive and intelligent, is forever trying to rein in beautiful, n
arcissic Sonali, Ma, their mother, struggles with her lonelines after being widowed in her thirties; Dida is their feisty grandmother whose indomitable spirit prods the family on during times of adversity; and Dadu, their grandfather, is a man perpetually homestick for his estates, irretrievably lost as borders are redrawn to form Bangladesh. Sonny - rich, handsome and arrogent - enters Sonali's life, only to jilt her Sonali's thwarted love affair, and a maritime misadventure, are the catalysts that alter the predictable pattern of the Bengali family's life and propels its women to find within themselves hitherto unknown strenghs - and to evolve and deal with changed circumstances. The story traces the gradual erosion of old values, an acceptance of new identities and, for the grandfather, at last a sense of realization that Delhi is home.
Publisher
Roli Books
ISBN
9788186939338
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
305
Subject
Fiction
Published Date
28
/ 02
/ 2007
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