Old Women - Softcover

Devi, Mahasweta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8170461448 ISBN 13: 9788170461449

Publisher: Seagull Books, 1999

Synopsis

Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women. In ‘Statue’, we meet Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival. When the government decides to erect in her village a statue of Dindayal―a man who had fought in India’s struggle for independence from British rule and who also was in love with Dulali long ago―a tragic, forbidden love comes back to haunt her. And in ‘The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur’, a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy leads Andi to lose her eyesight, even as she persists in her faith in a fairy-tale solution.

About this title

About the Author:

Mahasweta Devi is a writer and social activist. She is the author of numerous plays, essays, novels, and short stories, including Bait and Queen of Jhansi, also published by Seagull Books.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Bengali

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 8170461448
• ISBN 13: 9788170461449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104