Devadas: a novel / by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay.

By:

Chattopadhyay, Saratchandra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Penguin Books 2002Description: xv,127p. 18 cmISBN:

9780143029267 (pbk)

Uniform titles:

Devadas a novel

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

891.4435 CHA

Summary: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay tells the tragic story of Devdas and his doomed love in this translation of the original Bengali classic.Devdas is a young man who is in love with Paro. They have been together since childhood, and their love spans their entire life. However, Paro s parents have other plans for her. They want to marry her off to another man, and this marriage will prove destructive to Devdas sanity. His grief, and the story of his drunken stupor as he pines for his beloved Paro, is a classic story that has been told and retold throughout the decades since its first release. This English translation brings out the wonder and tragedy of the original Bengali novel for a new generation of readers.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	Meenakshi Mukherjee Books	823.914 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K6607

Gratis.

Saratchandra Chattopadhyay tells the tragic story of Devdas and his doomed love in this translation of the original Bengali classic.Devdas is a young man who is in love with Paro. They have been together since childhood, and their love spans their entire life. However, Paro s parents have other plans for her. They want to marry her off to another man, and this marriage will prove destructive to Devdas sanity. His grief, and the story of his drunken stupor as he pines for his beloved Paro, is a classic story that has been told and retold throughout the decades since its first release. This English translation brings out the wonder and tragedy of the original Bengali novel for a new generation of readers.

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