Dhaai Ghar (PUNJABI)

Author: Giriraj Kishore
Translator(s)/Editor: Harbhajan Singh
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 1994
Language: Punjabi
Pages: 448
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172015372

Description

A Sahitya Akademi award winner, this novel is set in the feudal setting of the rural western Uttar Pradesh, and straddles a period which has as its pivotal the attainment of political freedom. The novel ends by placing a big question mark on the values resurrected by a new political class.

This novel is about the destiny, which changes but does not change. As in a game of chess, the destiny is pre-defined: only the pieces that undergo that dfestiny keep changing.