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Book SynopsisWritten during the final stages of the Indian Independence movement, between the gloom and angst of the interwar period and at the cusp of the beginning of modern India, Bhuwaneshwar's short stories both capture the melancholy of the time and ask what it means to be human in an indifferent and amoral world. These stories are truly an event in the history of modern Hindi literaturehis work marks a complete break from the neo-romanticism and mysticism of his predecessors and contemporaries and establishes him as the definitive founder of the modern Hindi short story. His stories are populated with lonely characters from all walks of life: doctors, students, nomadic communities, acrobats, single mothers, soldiers returning from war, neglected children, and more. They are people living on the margins, introspecting their own anxieties and existence in an increasingly uncertain world set in places as far apart as hill stations, anonymous Indian villages, highways, railway compartments, and
Trade Review"[This] collection offers English-language readers access to one of the key figures of twentieth-century Hindi literature." * Words Without Borders *
“[He] has brought to light our secrets, our perversions with such brutality that one is scared to look at them.” -- Premchand in 1936 at the Progressive Writers’ Association meeting
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