Coolie (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Anand, Mulk Raj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140186808 ISBN 13: 9780140186802

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :1993-06-24 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics Aparajito is the sequel to Pather Panchali. Bibhutibushan Bandopadhyays best known novel. In Pather Panchali the story revolves around Harihar Roy. his wife Sabajya. daughter Durga and son Apu whose vision of the future remains positive. Aparajito carries forward this vision through Apus adolescence and youth. The story takes the reader through Apus school days at the village. His thirst for knowledge and an insatiable desire to see the world drive him to the city and he joins college for higher education. For the first time in his life he has to battle not just poverty but also the complexities of human relationships and other harsh realities of life. without support or assistance from anywhere. After his mothers death. a tragic marriage and years of carefree living. Apu finally realise...

About this title

About the Author:

Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar in 1905 and educated at the universities of Punjab and London. After earning his PhD in philosophy in 1929, Anand began writing for T.S. Eliot's magazine, the Criterion,as well as books on cooking and art. Recognition came with the publication of his first two novels, including his well- known trilogy - The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters ( 1940) and The Swaord and the Sickle ( 1942). By the time he returned to India in 1946 he was easily the best - known Indian writer abroad. Making Bombay his home and centre of activity, Anand threw himself headlong into the cultural and social life of India. He founded and edited the fine art magazine Marg, and has been the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, several honorary doctorates and other distinctions.

From the Back Cover:

'Anand's picture is real, comprehensive and subtle and his gifts are remarkable' V. S. Pritchett

Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India. Together with Untouchable, Coolie places Mulk Raj Anand among the twentieth century's finest Indian novelists writing in English.

'Munoo is a universal kind of figure. He is the passion not only of India but of manking' Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140186808
• ISBN 13: 9780140186802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288