• ISBN13: 9780198097433
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2013
• Pages: 176
• Original Price: INR 250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 159 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Literary

Nabaneeta Dev Sen creates a series of individual women and their stories uncovering the lives lived and left behind. The last phase becomes the entry point for an artistic meditation on the inherent fragility of women's lives.

The novella examines the closed world of the relationships of women within their homes with all its bitterness, anger, intolerance and marvellously brings out its inevitable unfolding of power at different stages of a woman's lifespan. Here we see the tension between different generations of women as a clash of their dependence, both economic and emotional, on men.

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer and literary critic, Tutun Mukherjee, Professor and Head, Centre for Comparative Literature University of Hyderabad

Nabaneeta Dev Sen is a major creative writer in India, with more than seventy five publications, equally powerful in a variety of genres, consisting of poetry, novels, short stories, travelogues, plays, belles letters, memoirs, literary criticism, humour, translations and children's literature in Bangla.

Tutun Mukherjee (translator) is Professor and Head, Centre for Comparative Literature University of Hyderabad.