Author: Uddhav J Shelke
Translator: Shanta Gokhale
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 228
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0333 93550 0
Description
An English translation from Marathi original DHAG which won much critical acclaim for its author.
Village life is no idyll for the poor but a test of endurance. Kautik - married to Mahadeo Tailor, a man who rather sit than stand, smoke than work - poor but proud and honest, brutal but loving is the spine that holds the family together. A dispassionate account of her struggle for survival.
One of the joys of translating Dhag, says Shanta Gokhale, was the crispness of narration and dialogue. English lends itself very well to understatement, while it sounds false when used to render flowery, over-written Marathi.