Dear Mr.Mahanta, Now I am also confused about Hitesh Deka's book.How many same title book then???? Bikash
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See note from my brother mm below. I looked up Knut Hamsun. Remember that name well. Read part of his novel Pan, again while in high school. It was in our home 'almirah', dog eared and worm holed. Must have been obtained by one of my brothers. Maati aru Manuh WAS a translation of Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize winning epic Growth of the Soil. See below and http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780143105107 That Isak was the lead character as I remember well, is the clear proof, as is the story line. So the author, most likely was Dinanath Sarma. BTW it was a riveting book. cm ************************************************************************************************************** Growth of the Soil Synopsis The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Annotation Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. The story of an elemental existence in rural Norway. More Reviews and Recommendations Biography Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Sverre Lyngstad has translated Hamsun's other novels for Penguin Classics and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and comparative literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Brad Leithauser is a MacArthur Prize-winning novelist, poet, and critic who writes frequently about Nordic literature and teaches at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. > >I asked Bunu--Blank! >Asked Mainu Baideo .She asked Hiren and in the morning thought 'The >book was published by GOA's Prokaxon Parixod' >Today I had no time to ask anybody at Pr Pa. >2Hours back she had something: Dinanath Sarma wrote this -being >Inspired by a book on Love of the Land and struggle for it--- by >Knut Hampsen? She was almost sure that the author was NOT Jogesh Das. >She wanted you to recall ifyou remember a Chinese sounding Character >Lin Yang in the book. If there was no China character --she is sure >--it was not a translation of Pearl S Buck's The Good Earth. >She would also like your description of the theme in this book you >read in your Teens > > > >> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:23 -0600 >> To: [email protected] >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [Assam] Jayanta writes >> >> That is quite interesting. >> > > I can't wait to find out the REAL truth now :-). >> _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
