Books by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (1)


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The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Bangladesh flag Bangladesh
Description:
A laugh-out-loud, tug-at-your-heartstrings tale of love, family, and freedom centered around three generations of Bengali women. Somlata has just married into the dynastic but declining Mitra family. At eighteen, she expects to settle into her role as a devout wife in this traditional, multi-generational family. But then Somlata, wandering the halls of the grand, decaying Mitra mansion, stumbles upon the body of her great aunt-in-law, Pishima. A child bride widowed at twelve, Pishima has finally passed away at the ripe old age of seventy. But she isn't letting go just yet. Pishima has long har... continue