Arogya Niketan (GUJARATI)

Author: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Translator(s)/Editor: Ramnik Meghani
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 1993
Language: Gujarati
Pages: 322
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172013124

Description

Translated from the original in Bangla by Enakshi Chatterjee, this novel which received Sahitya Akademi Award has an off beat theme. On one level the theme is a clash between the old and the new, between traditional medicine and the Western system of allopathy.

But it is not just a clash of values that the novel is concerned with. On a deeper level the theme is man's confrontation with death and his attempt to come to grips with it. The author looks at the human weakness with tenderness and sympathy.