Ten Days of the Strike : Selected Stories

Publisher:
Harper Perennial In
| Author:
Sandipan Chattopadhyay | Arunava Sinha
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Harper Perennial In
Author:
Sandipan Chattopadhyay | Arunava Sinha
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

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Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender relations and the absurdity of the human condition, while blurring the distinctions between the mainstream and the parallel stream.

Freedom and revolution, passion and hatred, love and death, memories and forgetting collide in the stories in this volume. Here we will find: a family dealing with the vagaries of a blocked toilet; a man setting fire to the fictional worlds he has inhabited for years; the touch of a blue hand marking a boy for life. Daring and provocative, they make for disturbing but uniquely rewarding reading.

Brilliantly rendered by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha, Ten Days of the Strike brings a comprehensive selection of Sandipan Chattopadhyay’s work to English readers for the very first time.

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Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender relations and the absurdity of the human condition, while blurring the distinctions between the mainstream and the parallel stream.

Freedom and revolution, passion and hatred, love and death, memories and forgetting collide in the stories in this volume. Here we will find: a family dealing with the vagaries of a blocked toilet; a man setting fire to the fictional worlds he has inhabited for years; the touch of a blue hand marking a boy for life. Daring and provocative, they make for disturbing but uniquely rewarding reading.

Brilliantly rendered by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha, Ten Days of the Strike brings a comprehensive selection of Sandipan Chattopadhyay’s work to English readers for the very first time.

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Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005) was one of the pioneers of the Hungryalist movement. His first collection of short stories, Kritadas Kritadasi (1961), is credited with changing the landscape of Bengali fiction and was immensely influential in other Indian languages as well. He was awarded the 1995 Bankim Puraskar and the 2002 Sahitya Academy Award for his work. ARUNAVA SINHA translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction, non-fiction and poetry from India and Bangladesh into English. More than eighty of his translations have been published so far across various countries, including India, UK, USA and Australia. He teaches translation and creative writing at Ashoka University in India, and is co-director, Ashoka Centre for Translation.

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