A Life Incomplete - Softcover

Nanak Singh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350292084 ISBN 13: 9789350292082

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2012

Synopsis

But he returns to find that his wife has died, leaving behind their infant child. As his world collapses around him, he negotiates the divergent pulls exerted by people around him: a holy man who advocates renunciation; his childhood friend Saroj, who has always loved him; and the tempestuous Prakash who hides an unsavoury past. Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author Nanak Singh draws on personal experiences to create this compelling portrait of Punjab in the 1920s. Originally published in Punjabi in 1940, Adh Kidhiya Phool is an intense meditation on the choices people make and the consequences these may have. The author's engagement with social issues like superstition and blind faith, religious bigotry, casteism and the emancipation of women seems as fresh and relevant today as it did when he wrote this book. Fluently translated by Navdeep Suri, A Life Incomplete introduces a stalwart of Punjabi literature to a new readership.

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About the Author

Nanak Singh (1897 - 1971) is widely regarded as the father of the Punjabi novel. With little formal education beyond the fourth grade, he wrote an astounding fifty-nine books, which included thirty-eight novels and an assortment of plays, short stories, poems, essays and even a set of translations. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1962. Navdeep Suri is a member of the Indian Foreign Service and is currently joint secretary (public diplomacy) in the ministry of external affairs.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9350292084
• ISBN 13: 9789350292082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272