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The Touch-me-not Girl
DEBEE, RAJLUKSHMEE
Price
115.00
ISBN
9788125010227
Language
English
Pages
170
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
1997
Series
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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About the Book
About the Author
Rajalukshmee Debee’s novel is about the pleasures and pains of growing up. As sensitive as the touch-me-not plant after which she is named, and despite her socially deprived background, the brilliant and attractive Lajuklata seems to have a promising future before her. Her early brilliance wins her a scholarship to college, but Lajuklata’s passage to maturity in a little village in East Bengal before the partition is fraught with social difficulties. The emerging political tensions of caste and religion exert a profound influence on the young girl, whose fate appears to be closely interlinked with that of her country. The powerful issues of nationalism, caste and emerging sexuality are given a treatment that is simple without being simplistic and complex without being made complicated.
DEBEE, RAJLUKSHMEE, is a poet and writer in Bengali. Translated from the Bengali by the author.