Concubine - Softcover

Sahoo, Sahadev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 935201930X ISBN 13: 9789352019304

Publisher: Frog Books, 2017

Synopsis

"Madhavi is beautiful, talented and innocent. She is not good at studies, but is a talented dancer and poet. Her mother, brought up in middle class milieu, is apprehensive lest her beauty and talent lead her on the wrong path; bring bad name and misfortune to their family. The mother and the daughter fail to understand each other. Madhavi has to discontinue her dance. Her dance teacher considering combination of beauty, talent and innocence in her and middle class background of her parents, predicts that she has much suffering in life. // The story is told against the background of those momentous events India has experienced during the years 1984-85 to 1994-95, such as assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi by her own bodyguards, commission of Sati in Deorala village, lowering of voting age to eighteen, assassination of Rajeev Gandhi, nationwide agitation against implementation of recommendation of Mandal Commission report, etc Her parents give Madhavi in marriage to an engineer posted in New Delhi. After marriage, she discovers her husband is a debauch and a crook. He is already married and staying with his wife without the knowledge of his parents. He tortures her and forces her to engage in immoral act. Madhavi escapes from his clutches, but cannot go back to her parents. Sanat, a self-made man, teaches History in the college where Madhavi was a student. He finds her talented and falls in love with her. But he cannot express it to her, nor could Madhavi understand his feelings."

About this title

About the Author

"Sahadev Sahoo writes stories and novels in Odia and English. His stories are being published in all the distinguished literary magazines of Odisha. Fifteen books penned by him have been published so far: eleven collections of stories, three novels and a collection of three novelettes in Odia. A few of his stories are published in different literary web magazines including museindia.com, indianreview.in, facenfacts.com, etc. He writes a blog, which can be accessed at sahadevsworld.blogspot.com. Besides, he writes features in Englsh and Odia for the newspapers and magazines on taxation matters and current affairs. He has been felicitated by many organizations in Odisha for his literary activities and has won the prestigious Bisuba Jhankar Galpa Samman and Subrat Smaraki Galpa Samman Sahadev Sahoo, a Finance Officer, is presently working as Joint Commissioner for Government of Odisha"

Edition details

• Publisher: Frog Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 935201930X
• ISBN 13: 9789352019304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234