{"product_id":"the-touch-me-not-girl-9788125010227","title":"The Touch-me-not Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): DEBEE, RAJLUKSHMEE\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRajalukshmee Debee’s novel is about the pleasures and pains of growing up. As sensitive as the touch-me-not plant after which she is named, and despite her socially deprived background, the brilliant and attractive Lajuklata seems to have a promising future before her. Her early brilliance wins her a scholarship to college, but Lajuklata’s passage to maturity in a little village in East Bengal before the partition is fraught with social difficulties. The emerging political tensions of caste and religion exert a profound influence on the young girl, whose fate appears to be closely interlinked with that of her country. The powerful issues of nationalism, caste and emerging sexuality are given a treatment that is simple without being simplistic and complex without being made complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616527736983,"sku":"9788125010227","price":83.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788125010227.webp?v=1769295027","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-touch-me-not-girl-9788125010227","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}