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Daughters of Jorasanko
by Aruna Chakravarti
Description:
The Tagore household is falling apart. Rabindranath cannot shake off the disquiet in his heart after the death of his wife Mrinalini. Happiness and well-being elude him. His daughters and daughter-in-law struggle hard to cope with incompatible marriages, ill health and the stigma of childlessness. The extended family of Jorasanko is steeped in debt and there is talk of mortgaging one of the houses. Even as Rabindranath deals with his own financial problems and strives hard to keep his dream of Santiniketan alive, news reaches him that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Will this be a turning point for the man, his family and their much-celebrated home?
Daughters of Jorasanko sequel to the bestselling novel Jorasanko explores Rabindranath Tagores engagement with the freedom movement and his vision for holistic education, brings alive his latter-day muses Ranu Adhikari and Victoria Ocampo and maps the histories of the Tagore women, even as it describes the twilight years in the life of one of the greatest luminaries of our times and the end of an epoch in the history of Bengal.
About The Author
Aruna Chakravarti is a well-known academic, creative writer and translator. Her first novel, The Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and her third, Jorasanko, received critical acclaim and went on to become a bestseller. Her seven translated works include an anthology of songs from Rabindranath Tagores Gitabitaan, Saratchandra Chattopadhyays novel Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyays Those Days, First Light and Primal Woman: Stories. She has two academic works to her credit: a biography of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and a critical work on Ruth Prawer Jhabvalas fiction. Among the various awards she has received are the Vaitalik Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Sarat Puraskar.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti is based on Rabindranath Tagore and his extended family, especially focusing on female members of the clan. But that’s just not what makes this book interesting. The constant tug of war that Rabindranath faced between fighting against evils of society and tackling same evils lurking around his family.
Very few books have the ability to share a unique story with right facts and strong research. Daughters of Jorasanko is one of those. The book is a sequel to Jorasanko published by the author in 2013.
Chakravarti’s writing style is simply amazing. A biographical fiction, Daughters of Jorasanko has been written with such an exquisite style which makes the story easy to comprehend from the very first page. Each of the characters and plots is written with utmost clarity and with such a lyrical writing style that the reader feels everything unfolding right in front of his eyes. The amount of research done by Chakravarti is brilliant and shows the hard work of three years she took to write Daughters of Jorasanko.
Daughters of Jorasanko is a must read.