Author: Bani Basu
Translator: Jayanti Datta
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 170
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-250-1668-6
Description
This translation from the Bangla 'Antarghat' is the story of a group of young friends who had committed themselves idealistically and politically to the Naxalite movement that rocked Bengal in the 1960s. Many years later, they still carry the scars beneath their lives of surface calm.
This translation from the Bangla 'Antarghat' is the story of a group of young friends who had committed themselves idealistically and politically to the Naxalite movement that rocked Bengal in the 1960s. Many years later, they still carry the scars beneath their lives of surface calm. But they also share the secret of a betrayal, one that was fatally injurious to some. Into this fragile, obscure universe arrives their betraye3r, ironically seeking anonymity. Jagged wounds reopen and death follows. Is it suicide or murder, expiation or vengeance?
Moving seamlessly from the past to the pre3sent, Basu's narrative is compelling and breathless, as the novel's edgy, nervous rhythms reconstruct and call up the turbulent history of a difficult period.
TRANSLATOR:
Jayanti Dutta graduated from Presidency College, Calcutta and is Senior Lecturer in English at Sivanath Shastri College, Calcutta. Her novel, 'Yearning', in English was published by Writers Workshop in 1998.
Contents
Translator's Note
The Red Maruti
Call from the Dark
In Darkness and in Light
The First Step
On a Bed of Nightmares
Dealer in Death
A Shriek of History
The Storm Breaks
The Shadow Alongside
Inside the Sleeve
The Azaan at Dawn
Sunlight Failing
The Ready Bayonet
The Dark Staircase
Separated by the Fog
The Spear at Rest
Afterword