Translated from the Bengali by Sreejata Guha She has previously translated Picture Imperfect, a collection of Byomkesh Bakshi stories, and Taslima Nasrin's novel French Lover for Penguin. She has worked as a translator and editor with Stree Publications and Seagull Books in Kolkata, and now works with Jacaranda Press in Bangalore. Sreejata Guha has an MA in Comparative Literature from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Apart from Devdas (1917), some of Saratchandra's best-known novels are Palli Samaj (1916), Charitraheen (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Grihadaha (1920), Pather Dabi (1926), Sesh Prasna (1929) and Srikanta (in four parts, 1917, 1918, 19). Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India. In his hands, the novel became a powerful weapon of social and political reform. Much of his writing bears the marks of the resultant turbulence in society. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the nationalist movement was gathering momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness. But he began writing as a teenager and was soon to become one of the best-loved Bengali novelists of all time. His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty and he received very little formal education. PENGUIN BOOKS DEVDAS Saratchandra Chattopadhyay was born on 15 September 1876 in Devanandapur, a village in West Bengal.
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