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Last Song Before Home
By Indira Das
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Description
After two strokes and a diagnosis of vascular dementia, Aparajita begins to live in two worlds simultaneously-the shifting present and the vivid landscapes of her past. In letters to her elder sister, she gathers the scattered fragments of her life: a childhood in Barisal, the upheaval of Partition, the tenderness of love, and the quiet triumphs of ordinary days. Faces blur, years collapse into one another, yet she writes on-each letter an act of resistance against the slow erasure of self.
Inspired by the true story of the author's mother, Gayatri Das, Last Song Before Home is a luminous tapestry of memory, loss, and resilience. Woven from the threads of pre- and post-Partition Bengal and a changing India, this epistolary novel is both a daughter's tribute and a meditation on what we carry within us-even when we forget. .
Originally published in Bengali, it is an elegy to sisterhood, a record of a life fully lived, and a testament to the dignity of those who drift yet are never truly lost.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2025-11-05
Publication Date:
2025-11-05
Publisher:
RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
9370035885
ISBN13:
9789370035881
Weight:
401 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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