Mahasweta Devi <br/><br/>
MIRROR OF THE DARKEST NIGHT 
/Translated by Shamya Dasgupta 
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 - London  Seagull  2018/01/01 
 -  306 
<br/><br/> It’s the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah—the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow—to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing a dangerous game of love, loyalty, deception, and betrayal. Bajrangi and Kundan, bound by their love for each other and for Laayl-e, struggle to keep their balance. Ranging across generations and geography, the scale of Laayl-e’s story sweeps the devil, a crime lord, and many other remarkable characters into a heady mix. Mirror of the Darkest Night is almost an aberration in Mahasweta Devi’s oeuvre. Known for her activism and hard-hitting indictment of social inequalities, she pays close attention to detail in this sparkling novel. It offers a rare glimpse of Devi’s talent for telling the sort of story she normally eschewed—and it’s a cracker of a tale. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857424396 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947 -Fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>India.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / MAH/MI