Overview
Thirteen-year-old Buchia is quick-witted and pleasant-looking, but in the competitive marriage mart of Bihar, her family needs to be resourceful and wily to find the right groom to uphold their pride. When a match is made with C.C. Mishra, English educated and recently graduated from Banaras Hindu University, everyone believes that a happy ending is near. But unknown to them, the groom dreams of a partner who writes poetry and plays tennis; is more-or-less a carbon copy of the film star Devika Rani.
Full Product Details
Author: Harimohan Jha ,
Lalit Kumar
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Imprint: HarperCollins India
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 20.00cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9789356293915
ISBN 10: 9356293910
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 14 December 2022
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
‘The Bride’ is an English translation of Maithili Classic novel ‘Kanyadan’ written by Maithili Hasya Samrat and most celebrated author Harimohan Jha. Lalit Kumar has done justice with translation and made this novel available for a larger public. Translating Harimohan Jha is a very challenging work as he was a witty person and used to quote Sanskrit verses frequently in his stories and novels. This book is in fact is a true example of translation as a rewriting as discussed by Anrew Lefevere. In introduction the translator has admitted that he took liberty to add and omit some of the texts to make this readable and lucid for the readers. Harimohan Jha was a critic of malpractices and evils of the contemporary society and through his witty and satirical stories and characters he exposed the flaws. ‘The Bride’ is a story of such a wrong tradition of Mithila society in particular and in Indian Society in general. Shailendra Mishra.
Author Information
Harimohan Jha (1908-1984) was born in the Kumar Bajitpur village of Vaishali district, Bihar. He studied English literature and philosophy at Patna University and taught philosophy there. He was a novelist, poet, satirist, critic and, above all, a lifelong crusader against obscurantism and oppressive social practices. Celebrated as the ‘Vidyapati of modern Maithili prose', he won the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously for his 1984 autobiography Jeevan Yatra (The Journey of My Life). Lalit Kumar teaches English at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi. He has co-translated the Hindi bestseller Twelfth Fail (HarperCollins, 2021) into English and is currently co-editing a book on Amaranatha Jha for the Sahitya Akademi. He holds a doctorate in Maithili literary culture and the coming of print in Mithila from the department of English, University of Delhi. His articles have appeared in many national dailies, including The Hindu, The Times of India and Jansatta.
