Khwabnama: Arunava Sinha's Translation of One of the Greatest Bengali Novels That Depict the Socio-Political Scene in Rural Pre-P

by Arunava Sinha and Akhteruzzaman Elias

Bengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges into knee-deep mud. This is Tamiz's father, the man in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670087211
• ISBN13: 9780670087211
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"