The Loneliness of Hira Barua
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WINNER OF THE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD AND THE PFC VoW BOOK AWARD FOR ENGLISH TRANSLATION 2021
An extraordinary, ever-relevant collection of stories from one of Assam’s greatest living writers.
Hira Barua, an ageing widow living in a conflict-ridden region of Assam with her beloved Tibetan spaniel fears she is beginning to resemble a lonely Englishwoman from her past. A vicious sexual...
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‘Patangia’s fiction, over the last two decades, has repeatedly knocked on the doors of [our] conscience’ Open
‘[This] is a collection of short stories reflecting the humanitarian outlook and sincerity of the author. The lucid style of writing and the suggestiveness in the language are remarkable in themselves. As such [it should be] considered as an important contribution to the genre of Indian fiction in Assamese’ Sahitya Akademi Award Citation