হৃদয়ের বাগান

by Protiva Bose

Hardcover

About the author

Protiva Bose (also spelled Pratibha Basu; Bangla: প্রতিভা বসু) was one of the most prolific and widely read Bengali writers of novels, short stories, and essays. She has written 200 books, all of which have been commercially successful. Several of her novels have been made into successful movies. She was known as Ranu Shome before she married the famous Bengali writer, Buddhadeva Bose.

She was born in Bikrampur, a village near Dhaka. She was awarded 'Bhubonmohini' gold medal from the University of Calcutta for her contribution in Bengali language and literature and Ananda Purashkar. Her granddaughter Kankabati Dutta is also a well-known writer in Bengali.

Bose was also famed as an singer of popular songs. The poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, singer Dilip Roy, and Rabindranath Tagore admired her voice and taught her their own songs. She made her first LP at the age of 12 and continued until the 1940s, when she gave up singing and started writing. She was soon a best seller and publishers fought against each other for her books.

She was a great lover of animals and was paralyzed from head to toe in 1972 because of an adverse reaction to an anti rabies shot, which was necessary as she was rescuing stray dogs who had rabies. She died in 2006.

Reviews

[Zubayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

প্রতিভা বসুর গদ্য বলার ধরণটি বড়োই মনমুগ্ধকর। এক নিশ্বাসে অনেককিছু বলেন, তারপর ভাবনার জানালা খুলে বসতে হয়, কী হচ্ছে চরিত্রগুলির জীবনে! 'হৃদয়ের বাগান' উপন্যাসের মূল যে নারীচরিত্রটি ; সে অসাধারণ, তাকে কোনো পাল্লাতেই ওজন করবার নয়। পড়ার মত বই তবে না পড়লেও ক্ষতিবৃদ্ধি নেই, মাস্টরিড খেতাব দেবো না।