Sarojini Sahoo

The Nest

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Produktbeschreibung

Pakhibsa is a story of the decadence of a family and their dream. This multi-dimensional novel includes a downtrodden family saga and the socio-economic picture of Odisha. The novel portrays a chain of events of an untouchable, downtrodden cattle bone collector, called Satnemis (through the protagonist Antaraa) and his family in western Orissa. Antaraa, the head of the family; his wife Sarasi; their three sons Sanyaasi, Daaktar, and Okil; and their daughter Parabaa. A downtrodden man dreams of seeing his sons established in their lives. So, he names them Collector, Doctor (Daaktar), and Lawyer (Okil). He dreams of seeing his only daughter, Parabaa, as a bride, but was it ever possible? The elder son, Sanyaasi, became a bohemian artist. The second son Daaktar became a bonded labourer. The third son Okil joins the Naxals. Days of hunger force Parabaa to be raped for a plate of rice by a forest guard, and later, she adopts the profession of prostitution. The novel ends with the death of Okil. The author juxtaposes lines from Bhagavat (a holy book in every Odia family) to build melancholy and generate intense emotional outages for the characters. The author's tone in the novel is dauntless, upholding the reader's perception. According to the author, on every household in the tribal hamlets of Odisha, hangs two pairs of withered eyes, waiting for their children to return home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BLACK EAGLE BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781645603962
• ISBN-10: 1645603962
• Artikelnr.: 68117093

Autorenporträt

Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) is an Odisha Sahitya Academy Award Winner and Indian feminist writer, a columnist in the New Indian Express and an Associate Editor of Chennai Based English Magazine Indian Age. She has been enlisted among 25 exceptional women writers of India by Kindle Magazine. She started writing fiction in the 1970s. A bilingual writer who writes. Both in Odia and English. She has 12 anthologies of short stories and 11 novels. She has published a collection of English essays titled 'Sensible Sensualities' (2010), which redefines femininity with an Eastern perspective; the book explores why sexuality plays a significant role in our understanding of Eastern feminism. She has 3 short story collections and two novels in English. Her work has been translated into many Indian and English languages, including Malayalam, Kannada, and Sinhalese.