Pather panchali: Song of the road: a Bengali novel, (UNESCO collection of representative works)

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Bibhuti Bhusan Banerjee

Allen& Unwin

Amartya Sen has shown that the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, when millions of people died, was also an example of a `man-made famine', caused by the War time economy in India under the British Raj. Recent studies directly implicate Churchill, as referenced recently by Shashi Tharoor in an article (The Washington Post, March 10 2018). This famine forms the backdrop for the novel, a literary fiction, Ashani Sanket, written contemporaneously by the greatest portrayer of rural Bengal, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.Through the eyes of Ananga, her husband Gangacharan and their compatriots, the author has drawn with deep sympathy their daily lives in a remote village as they face with utter bewilderment the onset of the famine--the distant thunder. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay is an iconic and beloved Bengali writer of the twentieth century. His novels Pather Panchali (`Song of the Road') and Aparajito (`The Unvanquished') were made into the famous `Apu Trilogy¿ by Satyajit Ray, another iconic movie director (Life-time Oscar, 1992). Ray also made a movie based on this novel Ashani Sanket (`Distant Thunder') which conquered the Golden Bear in Berlin Film Festival and is claimed by New York Timesas being one of the "1000 best movies ever made". The translator, Dr. Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra is Emerita Professor at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Bewtra has published in both English and Bengali. Her other translations include novels by Nabaneeta Dev Sen and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay--both winners of the Sahitya Akademi Award, given by the government of India.

Distant Thunder

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Parabaas

Aranyak (Bengali Edition)

Dey's Publishing

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Bengali

Aranyak =: Of the forest

Seagull

The Mountain of The Moon

Supernova Publishers

Chander Pahar opens with the following premise - Shankar Roy Chowdhury, 20, was slated to take up a job in a jute mill after graduating from college. However, his interest lay in exploration and adventure. When he got the opportunity to work as a clerk in the Ugandan Railways, he jumps at the prospect and leaves home. The story traces his journey through Pre World War I Africa, where he faced the perils of the man eating lion and the venomous Black Mamba. On his adventures through the continent, he meets Portuguese gold digger and adventurer, Diego Alvarez, who shares with him anecdotes from his expeditions with Jim Carter. He talks of the largest diamond mine that he found in Richtersveld, where his partner was killed by the mythical monster Bunyip. The rest of the story traces the adventures of Alvarez and Roy Choudhury as they set out to find the lost diamond mine of Richtersveld. The narration is simple and the plot offers edge-of-the-seat thrills. Chander Pahar is considered to be one of the most important adventure novels in Bengali. Despite its first publication in 1937, the book is still in circulation and has been translated to English titled Mountain Of The Moon. The illustration on the cover has been done by renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

Chander Pahar (Bengali Edition)

Ananda Publishers (2014)

Aam Antir Vhenpu (Bengali Edition)

Ananda Publishers

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Niyogi Books

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