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Brahma’s Dream (A Novel)

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Item Code: NAE191
Author: Shree Ghatage
Publisher: Roli Books
Edition: 2006
ISBN: 9788186939277
Pages: 437
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 9.0 inch X 6.0 inch
Weight 700 gm
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About the Book

Born with a rare form of anemia. Thirteen-year-old Mohini is not expected to live beyond the age of three. Mohini’s condition and her impending. Inevitable death is the pivot around which the characters of Brahma’s Dream live out their lives. But, instead of tragedy, it is humour, the fascinating detail of events as they unfold and, ultimately, the wry and heart-warming wisdom of the girl at the centre of the story that absorbs and envelops the reader.

Set in Bombay in the forties, at the defining moment when India emerged from British rule, Brahma’s Dream is as much the story of nation on the move, as of a Maharastrian family that is forword-thinking and ready to embrace the new order, while holding on to the traditions. It holds dear. Far from wallowing in self-pity, Mohini is both an astute observer and an active participant in all that goes on in the Ock household. Her parents, Keshav and Kamala share a passionate love that is at first rent asunder and then, amazingly healed, by their daughter’s illness. Her young aunt, Vasanti, Condemned to an early widowhood that no astrologer foretold, believes that there is a reason for this. Mohini’s grandfather, Vishnupant, is the patriarch who rules Koleshwar Nivas with a firm and compassionate hand, a professor of history who has devoted his life to making sense of India’s past so that the country may fulfil the promise of its future, And. As India surges towards independence, Mohini’s family and friends look to her help make sence and assign meaning to a rapidly changing world.

A remarkable debut novel that succeeds in being hugely entertaining and immensely moving. Brahma’s Dream explores the Hindu belief that birth, suffering and death are all but a part of a vast continuum in the mind of a god.

About the Author

Shree Ghatage was born and raised in India. She studied for seven years at a bording school in Kodaikanal and after returning to Bombay, obtained a BA in Economics & Stastics from St. Xavier’s College and an LLB from Government Law college. After moving to Newfounland, Canada in 1983, she went on to complete a BA in French. Ghatage is the author of a collection of a short stories, Awake when all the World is Asleep (1997), which won the Thomas H.Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and was shortlisted for three other regional and national awards.

Brahma’s Dream, her first novel, was published in Canada by Doubleday and was declared a Kirriyama prize Notable Book. It was also shortlisted for the Grant Macewan Author Award.

Ghatage lives in Calgary with her husband and two children.

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