A Journey on Bare Feet

by Dalip Kaur Tiwana

English (translation)

165 pages, Hardcover

First published April 11, 1990

About the author

Dalip Kaur Tiwana was a novelist and short-story writer of contemporary Punjabi literature.

Reviews

[Ravi Singh]

I can see the story was relevant and quite sad. About a girl growing up in the 1950s-1970s in rural Punjab, India in a patriarchal society. Going to school and doing well then going on to become a writer no less, these are big things and all the while the dark cloud of a child marriage, loveless life, the suffering of the women of the family. Tough life, but very honest, very sincere.

What lets this book down is the clunky and jarring translation. Otherwise I may as well learn Punjabi and read in the original language as I think Tiwana is a wonderful writer and storyteller.