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Godaan
By Munshi PremchandPublisher Description
Premchand is the most famous Hindi novelist and Godaan is Premchand’s most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer and his family’s struggle for survival and self-respect. Hori does everything he can to fulfill his life’s desire: to own a cow, the peasant’s measure of wealth and well-being. Like many Hindus of his time, he believes that making the gift of a cow to a Brahman before he dies will help him achieve salvation. An engaging introduction to India before Independence, Godaan is at once village ethnography, moving human document and insightful colonial history.
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“The language is beautifully constituted throughout the novel showcasing the social structures and the lives of people with descriptive prose. This novel is a reflection of the society at the time it was written their beliefs and struggles forms the basis of the novel and it highlights the social structures of the time as the centre of the novel.
The prose easily flows which captures the readers and keeps them continuously entrapped in reading the story so as to not break the flow of words forming the waves of narration.”Saloni Sharan
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