Those Days (novel)

Those Days

The cover image of Those Days
Author Sunil Gangopadhyay
Original title সেই সময় (Sei Samay)
Translator Aruna Chakravorty
Country India
Language Bengali
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Ananda Publishers, Penguin Books
Published in English
1997
Awards Sahitya Akademi Award
ISBN 9780140268522
OCLC 39516159
Followed by First Light

Those Days (Bengali: সেই সময়) is an award-winning historical novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was first published as a serialized novel in Bengali literary magazine Desh. Sunil Gangopadhyay won Sahitya Akademi Award for this novel in 1985. The story of the novel centers around many historical figures including Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath Tagore and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune the English educationists, and others.[1]

References

  1. "Those Days". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
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