This beautiful story set in the imaginary village of Abode Of Contentment is a Bengali cult classic.
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What a wonderful worid, this! The golden light of the full moon shone every chapter, the friendship of beautiful faces and Don games was the norm and on the occasion of the Aaheria hunt in spring, people went on long horse rides wi Spears, racing through barren valleys and fields of golden maize. His mother might think he was spending his days in the woods, but really he spent them in the desert and hills of Rajabara, inside the theatres of Delhi and Agra, in mirror panelled rooms in the company of gorgeous women dressed in full skirts and colourful dupattas.
Still, I would recommend reading the book because it captures the way a child sees the world in a particularly charming and unpretentious manner.
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In some ways I like the movie better, because film seems a better medium to capture the twittering, dripping sounds of the forest, or the quiet, long shots of fields of waving grass. This story was adapted into a famous Satyajit Ray movie. In other ways, the story plainly captures the ways in which women were powerless, less valued, and utterly mistreated. Because she is a girl, she never gets as much food, is berated for not doing housework, is never taught to read, and lives a jungly, solitary existence.
It is a kind of pre-Colonial life that could have been described almost identically if it had been set in the 1600's.ĭurga, who is constantly derided, often beaten, never quite loved - is especially heartbreaking. But ultimately, the world they live in is so small that Shorbojoya, the mother of Apu and Durga, has never been to a temple 6 miles away in the 10 years she lived in the village. We hear about a now defunct factory near the village, we see the train tracks, and we see a somewhat ridiculous Westernized family putting on airs. The other interesting thing about the story is how tangential British presence is in the story. You get a sense both of the rarified, natural beauty that village life holds, and of the ways in which it grinds people down, keeps them narrow, and strips them of their dreams. Their lives are simple and their stories simply told. It follows Apu and Durga, (two children who are poor even by the standards of their village mates), as they search for wild berries and leaves, steal mangoes from their neighbors, get beaten, play cowries, get lost, and discover trains. This is a somewhat slow, silent story of a young boy growing up in a poor village in Bengal.
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