Mohalla - Award Winning Novel
Publisher:
Sahitya Akademi
Language:
English
Pages:
100
Country of Origin:
India
Age Range:
18-100
Average Reading Time
200 mins
Book Description
Mohalla is an English translation of Madhu Acharya Ashawadi's Sahitya Akademi award-winning Rajasthani novel, Gavaad (a Mohalla or neighbourhood). In this novel, which has been hailed as the first postmodren novel written in Rajasthani literaturre, Gavaad emerges as the central characterm where it actually represents a country. People in the Gavaad live together as people of different religions live in a country. The novel investigates various facets of the human psyche and touches the deeper chords of human emotions. It explores human pain with profound sensitivity and depicts the co-existence of good and evil in human beings.