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November 1, 2015
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Announcing Giveaways of 25 copies of my Novel "The Funeral Procession". The Give away ends on 20 November, 2015. Restricted to India only this time. Join to get 25 signed copies. Add the book to your reading list.
Published on November 01, 2015 06:11
Aneek Chatterjee
Author of "The Funeral Procession",
Partridge India, 2015; Paperback & e-book
The Novel:
He did not see the partition of India, but discovered that his mother was a refugee. He was growing up, and th Author of "The Funeral Procession",
Partridge India, 2015; Paperback & e-book
The Novel:
He did not see the partition of India, but discovered that his mother was a refugee. He was growing up, and the Naxalite movement in India was also growing up with him. He watched life and death unfolding in front of him. With the ignorance of a child he saw the first funeral procession of his father, with excruciating pain he watched again, this time as a boy, another funeral procession, of his elder brother. Later he observed, as a young man, the funeral procession of a Head of Government. He felt that funeral processions were slowly expanding, from family to society, and gradually engulfing his country. The Novel portrayed the socio-political milieu of Bengal and India in the 1970s and 80s through the journey of J, its principal character, from childhood to adulthood. The journey also discovered the necessity of peace in times of war and ‘peace’.
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Partridge India, 2015; Paperback & e-book
The Novel:
He did not see the partition of India, but discovered that his mother was a refugee. He was growing up, and th Author of "The Funeral Procession",
Partridge India, 2015; Paperback & e-book
The Novel:
He did not see the partition of India, but discovered that his mother was a refugee. He was growing up, and the Naxalite movement in India was also growing up with him. He watched life and death unfolding in front of him. With the ignorance of a child he saw the first funeral procession of his father, with excruciating pain he watched again, this time as a boy, another funeral procession, of his elder brother. Later he observed, as a young man, the funeral procession of a Head of Government. He felt that funeral processions were slowly expanding, from family to society, and gradually engulfing his country. The Novel portrayed the socio-political milieu of Bengal and India in the 1970s and 80s through the journey of J, its principal character, from childhood to adulthood. The journey also discovered the necessity of peace in times of war and ‘peace’.
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