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Imaan / Manoranjan Byapari ; translated by Arunava Sinha

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Chennai : Eka, 2022Description: 240 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9789395073530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.443 MAN
Summary: The world of the free baffles him, and although the people living in the shanties by the railside-rickshaw-pullers, scrap-dealers, tea-stall owners, and those who sell dead bodies for a little bit of money-welcome him into their fold, life on a platform is both disillusioning and frightening at once; far more frightening than the precincts he was familiar with. This, too, is a prison, like the one he came from; that was small, and this is much larger. But no one went hungry in the jail he came from. If nothing else, one had a roof on their head, got three square meals, a blanket to sleep on. To get away from this odd world, Imaan wishes to return to the secure existence of a prison cell. He finds out that while there is only one door to get out of prison, there are a thousand doors to return to it-like theft, murder, rioting or rape. But is Imaan up to the task? Is he capable of committing a crime?
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English Books Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING 891.443 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 686309
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Translation of: Cherā cherā jībana

The world of the free baffles him, and although the people living in the shanties by the railside-rickshaw-pullers, scrap-dealers, tea-stall owners, and those who sell dead bodies for a little bit of money-welcome him into their fold, life on a platform is both disillusioning and frightening at once; far more frightening than the precincts he was familiar with. This, too, is a prison, like the one he came from; that was small, and this is much larger. But no one went hungry in the jail he came from. If nothing else, one had a roof on their head, got three square meals, a blanket to sleep on. To get away from this odd world, Imaan wishes to return to the secure existence of a prison cell. He finds out that while there is only one door to get out of prison, there are a thousand doors to return to it-like theft, murder, rioting or rape. But is Imaan up to the task? Is he capable of committing a crime?

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