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Shala (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789353026677)
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xMukund Joshi is fourteen and newly in love. He attends the same private tuitions as his classmate, Shirodkar, just for a glimpse of her, and follows her back home every day.
Sadly, she has not a clue that he is pining away for her, because in their society, boys and girls don't interact freely, much less talk about love. When he's not negotiating the tricky alleys of love, Mukund sits around the school field or loafs about town with his close friends, Surya, Chitre and Phawdya, railing against the education system, and debating ideas such as discipline and Bohemianism.
Set in a small Maharashtrian town during the Emergency of 1975, Shala is a heart-warming, nuanced novel about the adolescent struggles that are as tortuous in real time as they are amusing in retrospect.
Author: Milind Bokil
ISBN-10: 9353026679
ISBN-13: 9789353026677
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2019
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
By Milind Bokil
xMilind Bokil is a Marathi writer and sociologist. He was part of the Sampoorna Kranti movement led by Jayprakash Narayan in the 1970s and since then has been associated with various civil society organizations. A quest for meaning and direction in life is a consistent underlying theme in his writing. He explores the nuances of social relationships and human emotions with a natural flair in his books. He writes both fiction and non-fiction and has more than a dozen books (short stories, novels, travelogues and sociological studies) to his credit, some of which are Zen Garden, Ekam, Ran Durga and Samudra, Samudraparche Samaj. He has received several awards including the Best Literature Award by the Maharashtra Foundation. A Marathi movie based on his novel Shala bagged the National Award in 2012 apart from 40 other national and international prizes.
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