Sign-In
Cart
Kalindi {Brahmankanya}
Paperback
ISBN13: 9789354473913
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Published: Dec 1 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
DeScriPtion
It is the early 1900s in Mumbai. Educated and financially independent, Kalindi Dagge
dreams of living in a casteless and equitable society as a single mother-a life far removed
from the one she had in the stifling world she left behind. A world where she was the
daughter of a brahmin lawyer, Appasaheb Dagge, and the casteless Shanta; and the
granddaughter of another brahmin and his schoolteacher mistress who rejected the idea
of marriage. A world in which she was an outcast; the daughter of a man who rejected his
caste but not his caste pride. A world where she had reclaimed her grandmother's legacy
and chosen, in defiance of family and society, to live as the mistress of Shivsharanappa, a
Lingayat tobacco merchant, who later abandoned her and left her on the verge of suicide.
As she rebuilds her identity now in the big city, she wonders what it would be like to start
a new life based on love and respect with Ramrao, a trade union leader who shares her
ideologies and dreams.
Shridhar Vyankatesh Ketkar's masterpiece, originally published as Brahmankanya in 1930,
has been hailed as brave and ahead of its times. This magnificent translation by celebrated
author and translator Shanta Gokhale brings the classic alive for the contemporary reader,
and we see how relevant it remains almost a century later.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback