Twilight / Mark of the Nose - Ring (Two Novellas)

Author: Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Narinderjit Kaur/Jai Ratan
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 141
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123755779

Description

The protagonists of the two novellas of Dalip Kaur Tiwana Harjit of Twilight and Kiranjit of The Mark of the Nose-Ring, even though operating in separate individual contexts with their own personal dilemmas, are not very different from each other.

Tiwana, in her inimitable style, brings to fore the private and intensely intellectual side of her protagonists, presenting their simmering discontent with the social mores handed out to them as woman through symbols and internal monologues. The contemporary but quasi-modern and quasi-traditional milieu of the stories builds up a tension that sustains the reader’s interest.