Breast Stories

by MAHASWETA DEVI,

ISBN:	9788170461401
Book Name:	Breast Stories
Author:	MAHASWETA DEVI,
Publisher:	SEAGULL BOOKS
Edition:	8th
Language:	English
Binding:	Paper Back
Publish Year:	2020
Total Pages:	166
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NPR 798.00

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This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Breast Stories is a collection of short fiction about the breast as more than a symbol of beauty, eroticism, or motherhood, but as a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system and a weapon of resistance. At a time when violence towards women in India has escalated exponentially, Devi exposes the inherently vicious systems in Indian society. Old Women tells the touching, poignant tales of two timeworn women - Dulali, a widow since childhood, who is now an old woman preoccupied only with day-to-day survival, and Andi, who loses her eyesight due to a combination of poverty, societal indifference, and government apathy. All three volumes, written in Devi's hard-hitting yet sensitive prose, are significant milestones in India's feminist literary landscape.

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