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Author: Krishna Sobti ,
Daisy Rockwell
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Imprint: Penguin
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 20.00cm
ISBN: 9780143453482
ISBN 10: 0143453483
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 19 July 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In scintillatingly rich and poetic language, the semiautobiographical novelA Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There portrays the human dimensions of the partition of India in 1947 and the complex questions about belonging that it provoked as entire provinces, populations, and kingdoms were rearranged and incorporated into new political structures.In this translation, Daisy Rockwell has reflected the complex linguistic layering of the original, especially the influence of Gujarati and Punjabi on the Hindi of the author, Krishna Sobti, which reveals much about the characters' shifting identities.Skillfully navigating the novel's complex shifts in tense, perspective, and persona, Rockwell's nuanced translation presents us with a much-needed modernist masterpiece about one woman living through a defining, fractious moment in world history and forging a new identity. --Scaglione Prize selection committee
In scintillatingly rich and poetic language, the semiautobiographical novel A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There portrays the human dimensions of the partition of India in 1947 and the complex questions about belonging that it provoked as entire provinces, populations, and kingdoms were rearranged and incorporated into new political structures.In this translation, Daisy Rockwell has reflected the complex linguistic layering of the original, especially the influence of Gujarati and Punjabi on the Hindi of the author, Krishna Sobti, which reveals much about the characters' shifting identities.Skillfully navigating the novel's complex shifts in tense, perspective, and persona, Rockwell's nuanced translation presents us with a much-needed modernist masterpiece about one woman living through a defining, fractious moment in world history and forging a new identity. Scaglione Prize selection committee
Author Information
Krishna Sobti was one of the most respected writers in the Hindi canon. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama, and in 1996 was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi. In 2017, she received the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature.
