Janani - Brossura

Osamana, Saokata; Osman, Shaukat

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0435950835 ISBN 13: 9780435950835

Casa editrice: Heinemann, 1993

Riassunto

In Janani, Shaukat Osman describes scenes of simple domesticity with a poet's eye. He tells the story of two peasant farmers who at first glance lead peaceful lives; but conflict lies beneath the surface.

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SHAUKAT OSMAN was born in 1917 in an orthodox Muslim home in the village of Sabalsinghapur in Hoogley, West Bengal. He studied Economics at St Xavier's College, Calcutta, and gained a Master's degree in Bengali Language and Literature from Calcutta University. In 1942 he was appointed lecturer at Calcutta Institute of Commerce and following the partition of India in 1947 he taught in Chittagong Government College of Commerce and at Dhaka College until he retired in 1977.He has published over sixty volumes of fiction, drama, poetry and essays. His fiction includes Adam's Children (1945), Janani (serialised in 1945-46 and published in 1961), The Slave's Laugh (1962), The Wolf Forest (1980), The Insect Cage (1983), The State Witness (1985) and several volumes of short stories.Uniquely among the Bengali Muslim writers who emerged in the forties, Shaukat Osman uses the lives of peasants and the urban poor as his themes. He became increasingly involved in his nation's

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Book by Osman Shaukat

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• Editore: Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0435950835
• ISBN 13: 9780435950835
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192