Publisher |
Seagull Books |
Publication Year |
2018 |
ISBN-13 |
9788170461470 |
ISBN-10 |
8170461472 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
150 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Bitter Soil contains four of her most powerful stories Salt , Seed , The Witch and Little Ones all set in Palamau, the tribal-intensive region she has traveled extensively. As she says in her introduction, My Palamau is a mirror of India. These harsh, hardhitting pieces are, in her own words, among the most important of her prolific writing career. Written in the eighties, they resonate with anger against the exploitation she witnessed firsthand, and the complacent hypocrisy of the upper castes and classes
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) was a noted social activist and Bengali writer. Her first book, The Queen of Jhansi, was published in 1956. She published twenty collections of short stories and close to a hundred novels. She won several literary prizes including the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979 for her novel Aranyer Adhikar.
Mahasweta Devi
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