Ten Days of the Strike : Selected Stories

Author:

Arunava Sinha

,

Sandipan Chattopadhyay

Publisher:

Harper Perennial India

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Publisher

Harper Perennial India

Publication Year 2024
ISBN-13

9789362138224

ISBN-10 9362138220
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 344 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 22 X 14 X 1.5
Weight (grms) 230

'Incredible ... tender, bookish and weary, as well as soaked through with rage' --- ANJUM HASAN


'Important stories that afford readers a glimpse of the richness of experience and experimentation in Indian literature' --- ANUKRTI UPADHYAY


'Keenly observed and finely detailed' --- JAYASREE KALATHIL


Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender relations and the absurdity of the human condition, while blurring the distinctions between the mainstream and the parallel stream.


Freedom and revolution, passion and hatred, love and death, memories and forgetting collide in the stories in this volume. Here we will find: a family dealing with the vagaries of a blocked toilet; a man setting fire to the fictional worlds he has inhabited for years; the touch of a blue hand marking a boy for life. Daring and provocative, they make for disturbing but uniquely rewarding reading.


Brilliantly rendered by award-winning translator Arunava Sinha, Ten Days of the Strike brings a comprehensive selection of Sandipan Chattopadhyay's work to English readers for the very first time.

Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Over thirty of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), he has also won the Muse India award for translation for When the Time Is Right (2012) and been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee. Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK and US in English and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He was born and grew up in Kolkata and lives and writes in New Delhi

Sandipan Chattopadhyay

Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005) was one of the pioneers of the Hungryalist movement. His first collection of short stories, Kritadas Kritadasi (1961), is credited with changing the landscape of Bengali fiction and was immensely influential in other Indian languages as well. He was awarded the 1995 Bankim Puraskar and the 2002 Sahitya Academy Award for his work.
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