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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: aunt who wouldn't die
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Goynar baksho. English
  name:
    name part: Mukhopadhyay, Sirshendu
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Sinha, Arunava
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ben
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 146 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 harbored a grudge against the Mitras for keeping her in perpetual widowhood, never allowed to fall in love. Now, her ghost intends to meddle in their lives, making as much mischief as possible. Pishima gives Somlata the keys to her mysterious box of gold to keep it out of the Mitras' hands. However, the selfless Somlata, witnessing her new family waste away their wealth to the brink of bankruptcy, has her own ideas. Boshon is a book-loving, scooter-riding, rebellious teenager who wants nothing to do with the many suitors that ask for her hand. She yearns for freedom and wants to go to college. But when her poor neighbor returns from America she finds herself falling in love. Perhaps Pishima's yearning spirit lives on in her own her heart? The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die is a frenetic, funny and fresh novel about three generations of Mitra women who are surprising at every turn and defy all expectations. They may be guarding a box of gold, but they are the true treasures in this gem of a novel.
  note: Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay ; translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha.
  note: "First published in 1993 in Bengali as Goynar Baksho by Ananda Publishers, Koklata, India"--Title page verso.
  subject:
    topic: Women, Bengali
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PK1730.29.U463 G6913 2020
  classification: 891.4/4371
  identifier: 9780062976321
  identifier: 006297632X
  identifier: 9780062976345
  identifier: 0062976346
  identifier: 9780062976338
  identifier: 2019060226
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200106
    record change date: 20201008132403.0
    record identifier: in00004274324