Book Review: Narach
Of late Bengali literature has been mostly focusing on historical novels. Narach by Debarati Mukherji is such a novel that specifically revolves round the rise of New Generation of Bengal's reformers and liberal ideologies amidst the backward social structure and barbaric English rule. About the author: One of the most celebrated figures in contemporary Bengali literature, Debarati Mukhopadhyay is a high level Government officer whose literary works have been highly praised and awarded. Her works include vivid research work and a very easy language to resonate with every reader. Mini Synopsis A widowed girl and her painful plight with the backdrop of the 1880s Bengal and its various people, mixed with fictional characters and references of famous reformers and literary figures of that time, along with Nawab Wajid Ali Shah's life in Kolkata- this book has covered that era of Bengal and its polarizingly striking parallel worlds that existed...