Author: Buddhadev Guha
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): John W Hood
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 458
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129104903
Description
The Bounty of the Goddess is the English translation of Buddhadev Guha’s novel, Kojagar in Bengali which is a perennial bestseller for the last four decades. The novel depicts the life of the tribal inhabiting the obscure spaces of India.
It is the construction of a setting far removed from the urban landscape. But life is not simple or idyllic as it is imagined to be in a rural scenario-situated between the realms of magic and reality, man struggle with man and nature to survive.
Again the duality of nature in the two forms of beauty and ruthlessness is simultaneously witnessed. Enter Valumar, a part of forgotten and blurred India, which is refreshing, but real and brutal.
The Bounty of the Goddess is a novel which ultimately poses didquieting questions about the value of human life, about people amongst people, about people in relation to animals and the environment, about people in the context of their own potential. Basic to it all is the question of how people value themselves and one another. But underneath these questions lies the tortuous mesh in all our lives of callousness and loving care, every waiting to be untangled.