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Narach

Narach

Hardcover

$24.99 USD
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DETAILS : 
  • Author : Debarati Mukhopadhyay
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Patra Bharati
  • Publication Date : 24 January 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Bengali
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 215 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8183746306
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9788183746304
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 350 g

ABOUT THE BOOK 

25th of May, 1887- A boat carrying 700 pilgrims from Howrah was caught in a tornado and capsized on the way to Puri. This catastrophe has been lost in the sands of time. In the same period, Bengal was witnessing a cultural and social renaissance. Kadambini Devi was relentlessly fighting for women’s rights; Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was building a miniature-Lucknow in Metiabruz, Kolkata. Around the same time, thousands of people were tyrannised into slavery and indentured labour and were being shipped away to South American countries. Narach is a sprawling historical novel that contrasts the uprising in Bengal with the misfortunes of the tormented communities. Spanning over years, Debarati Mukhopadhyay's years of immersive research have been narrated with such astonishing frankness, detail and immediacy that readers are transported back in time and will get to experience the events as they happened.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

  • Debarati Mukhopadhyay is a contemporary Bengali-language novelist and writer.
  • She also holds a government-officer role besides her writing career.
  • She has written 20+ bestselling novels (and in some sources “30+”) in Bengali, published by major houses including HarperCollins India.
  • Her work has been adapted (or is being adapted) for film/OTT or other media. For example, her novel Narak Sanket was adapted into the Bengali film Swastik Sanket. 
  • She has received several awards and honours: e.g., the Indian Express Devi Award (2022) and the Tagore Samman (2022).
  • Her novels often engage with **historical fiction**, **social issues**, and under-explored narratives — for example, the novel Narach (translated into English as Chronicles of the Lost Daughters) explores the 19th-century Bengal, indentured labourers and women’s experience.  
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