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The Trilogy: The Village, Across the Black Waters, The Sword and the Sickle [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2016]

The Trilogy: The Village, Across the Black Waters, The Sword and the Sickle [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2016]

Saros Cowasjee
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'... the finest of his works.' - S. Menon Marath in Life and Letters. The Trilogy is a story of the transformation of a man and a nation on an epic scale. The three novels comprising this trilogy - namely The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle - unfold a saga of changing India, from one characterised by oppressive, stagnant life to one where one can dream dreams. Lal Singh, nicknamed Lalu, is a Sikh peasant youth who feels stifled by the endless petty tyrannies of Indian village life, mired in poverty, debt and social rigidity. Rebellious and free-spirited, Lalu flees from an unjust imminent arrest, finding refuge by enlisting in the army in the midst of World War 1. Hastily trained, Lalu's regiment is pitchforked from rustic Punjab into the soul-grinding trench warfare in France. But France also provides Lalu a new window to the life and world of a free people. Upon returning home, Lalu is demobilised from the army in disgrace - and without the reward of a piece of land of his own to till upon which he had set his heart. Angry and rootless, he elopes with his childhood sweetheart and is fortuitously drawn into India's gathering independence movement. Now socially and politically aware, Lalu proves himself to be a natural political organizer of the peasantry. Through the tumult and din of protests and arrests, Lalu grows dimly aware of the meaning and possibility of freedom, and the coming of a new dawn. The Trilogy is scripted on a vast canvas and is peopled with an array of arresting characters, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, soldiers Indian, English and German, petty officials, politicians, rich landlords and, most importantly, poor Indian peasants. Mulk Raj Anand vividly captures all the quite diverse smells, the air and nuances as the action moves from rural Punjab to the war trenches in France and on to India's pre-Independence political heartland.
Pages
950
Format
Hardcover
Release
July 10, 2016
ISBN 13
9788170949657

The Trilogy: The Village, Across the Black Waters, The Sword and the Sickle [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2016]

Saros Cowasjee
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
'... the finest of his works.' - S. Menon Marath in Life and Letters. The Trilogy is a story of the transformation of a man and a nation on an epic scale. The three novels comprising this trilogy - namely The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle - unfold a saga of changing India, from one characterised by oppressive, stagnant life to one where one can dream dreams. Lal Singh, nicknamed Lalu, is a Sikh peasant youth who feels stifled by the endless petty tyrannies of Indian village life, mired in poverty, debt and social rigidity. Rebellious and free-spirited, Lalu flees from an unjust imminent arrest, finding refuge by enlisting in the army in the midst of World War 1. Hastily trained, Lalu's regiment is pitchforked from rustic Punjab into the soul-grinding trench warfare in France. But France also provides Lalu a new window to the life and world of a free people. Upon returning home, Lalu is demobilised from the army in disgrace - and without the reward of a piece of land of his own to till upon which he had set his heart. Angry and rootless, he elopes with his childhood sweetheart and is fortuitously drawn into India's gathering independence movement. Now socially and politically aware, Lalu proves himself to be a natural political organizer of the peasantry. Through the tumult and din of protests and arrests, Lalu grows dimly aware of the meaning and possibility of freedom, and the coming of a new dawn. The Trilogy is scripted on a vast canvas and is peopled with an array of arresting characters, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, soldiers Indian, English and German, petty officials, politicians, rich landlords and, most importantly, poor Indian peasants. Mulk Raj Anand vividly captures all the quite diverse smells, the air and nuances as the action moves from rural Punjab to the war trenches in France and on to India's pre-Independence political heartland.
Pages
950
Format
Hardcover
Release
July 10, 2016
ISBN 13
9788170949657

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