How strange this life was for women they were born only to go away, and that was their way of getting everything in life. Of Rajen Mitra s five lovely daughters, it is the youngest the beautiful, intelligent Swati who is the apple of her father s eye. As she grows from an impetuous, spirited child to a lonely young woman, Swati is witness to the upheavals and joys of the Mitra family even as the country slides towards the promise of independence and the inevitability of war. Anxious to ensure that his daughters find suitable husbands, Rajen-babu realizes it is only a matter of time before his favourite child too must leave home. While the boorish entrepreneur Prabir Majumdar decides that she will make him a fitting wife, Swati finds herself increasingly drawn to Satyen, the young professor who introduces her to a world of books and the heady poetry of Tagore and Coleridge. First published in Bengali as Tithidore in 1949, When the Time Is Right is a moving tale of a family and a nation.

When The Time Is Right

Literature & Fiction

Bose, Buddhadeva

Genre Fiction

India Penguin

A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life —a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor—face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise, and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating glimpse into contemporary life in India. Coming out of a great storytelling tradition, My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India's most celebrated writers.

My Kind of Girl

Dramas & Plays

Archipelago

Four middle-aged men, strangers to one another, await a train in Tundla station, Uttar Pradesh. Struck by the bliss and obliviousness of a passing young couple, they while away the long December's night by telling of the secret loves of their own pasts. As night draws towards dawn, the station's waiting room forms the backdrop to an elegant and tender consideration of memory's lasting power. Now available for the first time in English translation, My Kind of Girl is a poignant and sophisticated modern classic by the greatest Bengali writer since Tagore.

Literary

Hesperus Press

La fille de nos rêves

Pocket

Das Mädchen meines Herzens

Contemporary

Ullstein Verlag GmbH

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