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A Winter's Night and Other Stories

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Book ID
109511079
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
667 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143330387

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โœฆ Synopsis

Ten classic stories from the master of Hindi literature Nearly a century after they were written, Premchand's numerous short stories, novels and plays, written both in Hindi and Urdu, continue to be a mirror to Indian society and its traditions. A Winter's Night and Other Stories brings together, for young readers, some of his most powerful short stories. This is a world inhabited by people like Halku, forced to spend the bitterly cold winter night in the open, without a blanket; Kaki, the old invalid aunt, ill-treated by her own relatives; and Shankar, reduced to being a bonded labour for the sake of a handful of wheat. Premchand describes their plights with unflinching honesty. Yet all is not hopeless in this world. There is also little Hamid, who buys tongs for his old grandmother rather than toys for himself; Ladli, who saves her share of puris for her blind aunt; and Big Brother, trying in vain to remember the strange names of English kings and queens. Greed, dishonesty,...

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