{"product_id":"saratchandra-omnibus-vol-1","title":"The Saratchandra Omnibus: Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eSaratchandra Chattopadhyay is widely acknowledged as\u003cbr\u003eone of the greatest Indian novelists of the twentieth century. His novesl,\u003cbr\u003eserialized in periodieals and subsequently published in book form, earned\u003cbr\u003eSaratchandra immense fame in the early decades of the century, and the\u003cbr\u003eestablished him as Bengal's master storyteller. Even today, seven decades after\u003cbr\u003ehis death. Saratchandra remains one of the most popular novelists in Bengal, and\u003cbr\u003eis widely read in translation across India as well.This collector's edition\u003cbr\u003eof Saratchandra's works in English translation brings together the writer's most\u003cbr\u003erenowned and best-loved novels in two omnibus volumes. The first volume features\u003cbr\u003efive novels: Srikanta, Devdas, Parineeta, Palli Samaj and Nishkriti.\u003cbr\u003eSrikanta is the story of a wanderer who observes the people around him;\u003cbr\u003ethrough them-especially the women he loves and respects, from the sacrificing\u003cbr\u003eAnnada Didi and the rebellious Abhaya to the housewife Rajlakshmi and the\u003cbr\u003ecourtesan Pyari Bai-he tries to arrive at an understanding of life. Devdas,\u003cbr\u003eon the other hand, is the tragic tale of a man who drives himself to drink and\u003cbr\u003edebilitation when he is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart Paro. In Parineeta\u003cbr\u003e(Expoused), the orphaned Lalita is secretly in love with her guardian\u003cbr\u003eShekhar, but circumstances conspire to drive the two apart. Palli Samaj (The\u003cbr\u003eVillage Life) has Ramesh, an engineer, returning to the village of his birth to\u003cbr\u003etry and rid it of the backwardness that plagues it, even as he tries to revive\u003cbr\u003ehis childhood ties with Rama, now a widow. In Nishkriti (Deliverance),\u003cbr\u003ethe strong-willed Shailaja, the youngest daughter-in-law in a joint family, is\u003cbr\u003emade an outcast as a result of a misunderstanding; much later, her elders\u003cbr\u003erealize their mistake, just\u0026amp;n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aruna Chakravarti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48622661009713,"sku":"014400014","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/6602\/9617\/files\/9780144000142.jpg?v=1742551196","url":"https:\/\/funzone.ae\/products\/saratchandra-omnibus-vol-1","provider":"Funzone","version":"1.0","type":"link"}