Behular Baromasya by Mahasweta Devi [Hardcover]

"Mahasweta Devi's literary career has already completed fifty years since the publication of her first book. Her stories vividly depict environments where forests are endangered, people are vulnerable, where individuals are deprived of their fundamental rights. Generations of people, driven to extreme poverty by ignorance and lack of education, end up selling themselves and their families, and where the dignity of women is violated. In such contexts, Mahasweta Devi's writing is astonishingly empathetic, vocal, and protest-driven, while also shining with compassion.

In the book Behular Baromasya, she portrays the struggles and triumphs of the impoverished people of the marshy regions of South Bengal with great vitality. Such authentic depictions are possible only through Mahasweta Devi's remarkable storytelling."