Wrong Number and other Stories
Mahasweta Devi
Price  150.00
Translation From Bengali. Four Stories. The Shrill Ring Of A Telephone In The Depths Of The Night, The Nightmare Of An Anxious Father Who Refuses To Face The Fear That His Son May Have Been Killed. The Desperate Plea Of A Destitute Dusad Goatherd That He Has A `Fundamental Right` To His Property Of A Few Ill-Fed Goats. The Terror Of A Little Boy At The Relentless Violence Of The Upper Castes Against His Kith And Kin, In His Mind Inextricably Linked To The Name `Gandhi` After Whom Public Spaces Are So Often Named. And The Helpless Grief Of Two Mothers Who Mourn The Deaths Of Their Sons, Ram And Rahim, Seperated By Religion But In The End United In The Senseless Waste Of Their Untimely Deaths. Not Front Page News, Just The Human Face Of The Statistics That Swell The Inside Pages Of Our Newspapers. In Her Inimitable Manner, The Aythor Brings Us Face To Face With The Reality Of Oppression And Repression That Haunts Our Country.Contents: Wrong Number-Fundamental Rights And Bhikari Dusad; Gandhi Maidanand Raghua Dusad; Ram And Rahim.
ISBN 9788170462927Category FictionSubcategory Literary Fiction
Publisher Seagull BooksImprint Seagull BooksPublished 15/05/2018
Format DemyBinding PaperbackPage extent 74
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