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A lyrical Bengali novella of love, longing & social justice—told through intimate conversations between Aditi and her poet lover. Translated into English.
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| ISBN | 9789347783906 |
What language does love speak when it speaks of dreams, heartache, and revolution — all in one breath? To find out, listen to the pages of this deeply evocative novella where the story courses through an endless chain of conversation between Aditi and her lover.
Swati Guha masterfully weaves inner worlds of tenderness, love, and affection, along with moving commentaries on social injustice, dreams, and the struggles of reform, into one lucid narrative that flows right into the heart of the reader and stays.
At the heart of the novella is a love that survives on seven days a year. Aditi travels from Kolkata to a quiet, nature-wrapped outpost where her lover — a poet in self-chosen exile — waits, having spent the entire year preparing for her arrival. Their reunion unfolds entirely through conversation: sparring, tender, philosophical, and shot through with humour.
Between banter about cold water and warm coffee, sarees and sweaters, they talk about rivers slowly drying up, the courage it takes to leave city life behind, and what it means to truly belong somewhere. Babulal, the loyal rickshaw-puller, hovers at the edges of their world — a quiet witness to a love that refuses the ordinary.
Witty and wistful in equal measure, the story captures the push and pull between two people who have chosen very different lives, yet find themselves drawn back to each other, year after year, in a world that keeps quietly changing around them.
Swati Guha is currently the Director at the Institute for Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata, under the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. Dr. Guha has a vast range of academic and administrative expertise. She has previously been the Director for the Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal and the Development Officer for the Sidho Kanho Birsha University, West Bengal. She has also served at the Roopkala Kendro, an institute of social communication, under the Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal. In addition to her administrative roles, Dr. Guha is well known as a prolific writer of prose with numerous fiction and non-fictional books to her name. Her literary prowess has been recognized through various literary and cultural awards
Pritha Banerjee has completed her Masters in English Language & Literature from University of Delhi. She was the recipient of the National Essay-writing Award from SREI Foundation in 2014. She has been a writer and translator for the Sankrityayan-Kosambi Study Circle. Her latest publications include articles in ‘South Asian Women’s Narratives: Literatures of Their Own’ by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, FIPRESCI India, Muse India, Pashyantee: A Bilingual Journal, and Anustup Prakashani.
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