موسيقى موهينى

by Bhabani Bhattacharya, باباني باتاشاريا, عثمان نوية (Translator)

A young Indian girl from a Brahmin family is to be married.

Author Bhabani Bhattacharya is one of the remarkable novelists in the realm of Indo-English fiction

326 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

was an Indian writer, of Bengali origin, who wrote social-realist fiction. He was born in Bhagalpur, part of the Bengal Presidency in British India. Bhattacharya gained a bachelor's degree from Patna University and a doctorate from the University of London. He returned to India and joined the diplomatic service. Bhattacharya served in the United States, to which country he returned as a teacher of literary studies once he had left the service. He taught in Hawaii, and later in Seattle. In his mid-thirties Bhattacharya began writing fiction set in historically and socially realistic contexts. He wrote in English, his chosen medium following the advice of two prominent literary figures.
Bhattacharya is described as belonging to the social realism school of Indo-Anglian literature. His writings exhibit the influence of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi. Unlike other social realists like Premchand, Bhattacharya adopted a pedagogical approach to making novels out of ideas, utilizing satire and making his ideas more tangible through situational examples.

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bless you, Constance. I had done an Internet search a couple of years ago and found nothing. I read this many, many times in the '60s, poring over it and trying to read between the lines - imagine a book about a girl being married and trying to have a child without any sex in it! And the emphasis on knitting - thought that was so strange but now realise it is an authentic detail.

I got this book as a discard from the Boston Public Library. A family friend was a retired policeman who worked as a guard there. Discarded books were supposed to be destroyed, but he saved a very few for me because everyone knew that I could never get enough of reading. I rememeber him with love - tall, skinny, impossibly old it seems to me - Mr. O'Connell.

[Ramakalyan Ayyagari · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it when I was doing my Masters, and in a way it changed my perspective of marriage and love. I regret that I lost this book, and I am unable to get a copy.