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March, Ma Aur Sakura
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About the book
March, Ma Aur Sakura, Harper Hindi’s first original Hindi title is a mixed bag of old and new stories from the author of Mai, Tirohit and Hamara Sheher Us Baras. It deals with ordinary everyday realities such as the routine of a woman in a middle class household, a morning walk, man-woman relationship, a writer’s struggle to find a space to write in, old age, death, desire and loneliness in a very remarkable manner . Where should a writer head to finish an unfinished book – to an empty house in the middle of nowhere or to the busy crossroads of a joint family? Whose name must a woman utter in mid-sleep – her husband’s or her lover’s? What does the first holiday of her life mean to a woman who travels alone all the way from India to Japan to see her son? How does the memory of a shameful suicide in a house spread like fear in the air on a dark, stormy night? How many minutes does it a take a man fancying his friend’s wife to return to reality? No two questions are alike, no two situations alike. Neither do the inner lives described in these tales flow in a single stream of consciousness. Each subject, relationship or human struggle dealt with is a pack of several voices jostling against each other to emerge as a solution to the writer’s dilemma.
Pages: 180
Available in: Paperback
Language: English
Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree has written four novels – Mai, Tirohit, Hamara Sheher Us Baras and Khali Jagah – and two collections of short stories in Hindi. Also to her credit is Between Two Worlds: An Intellectual Biography of Premchand. Her stories have been translated into Gujarati, English, German, Serbian and Japanese. Her novel Khali Jagah has been translated into Urdu in Pakistan and is being translated into English now. The English translation of Mai was shortlisted for the Hutch-Crossword Translation Award in 2000. She has received the Indu Sharma Katha Sammaan, Hindi Akademi Sahityakar Sammaan and Dwijdev Sammaan for her contribution to Hindi literature.