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Imprint: Orient Paperbacks
Publication Date: 20 Sep, 1999
Pages Count: 120 Pages
Weight: 130.00 Grams
Dimensions: 5.00 x 7.75 Inches
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About the Book:
In Lajwanti, Mulk Raj Anand focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself. Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor for sacrifice and servility which forms the thematic heart of these stories.
Anand's historic importance has been established, he stands out as the most wide-ranging and prolific...a figure of towering humanity whose works guide us through the multitudinous complexity of India with more verve than anyother writer of his time.
Mr. Anand has a marvelous power of evoking an immense varied life...Anand's picture is real, comprehensive, and subtle, and the shifts in moods, from farce to comedy, from pathos to tragedy, and from the realistic to the poetic, are remarkable.
With great deftness, Anand pictures India...He impresses with his profound knowledge of Indian religion and culture.
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 - 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K. Narayan and Ahmed Ali, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.
Born in Peshawar, he studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar, before moving to England where he attended University College London as an undergraduate and later Cambridge University, graduating with a PhD in 1929.
In 1972, he was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) the most prestigious Indian award for literary writing.