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A towering figure in contemporary Bengali literature, Joy Goswami continues to mesmerize generations through his poetry. In a very readable translation, Sampurna Chattarji captures every nuance and subtle detail of the original, with the poems giving a unique twist to the universal themes of love, suffering, sacrifice and death.
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Joy Goswami is one of Bengal's foremost poets, with more than thirty published books. His many awards include the Ananda Puroshkar and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Of her ten books, the most recent are her short stories about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013) and her second novel, Land of the Well (HarperCollins, 2012).
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