{"product_id":"9780195623918","title":"Paraja (2ND)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten originally in Oriya in 1945 and translated here for the first time, Paraja is a classic of modern Indian fiction. It tells on an epic scale the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa. The slow decline in the fortunes of this family - from the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the local moneylender - is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of the erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities. The novel, furthermore, transcends what it documents because its characters are not merely primitive tribesmen ensnared by a predatory moneylender. Mohanty's protagonists are also quintessentially men and women waging heroic but futile war against a hostile universe. As the citation of the Jnanpith Award of 1974 put it - 'in Mohanty's hands the social is lifted to the level of the metaphysical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48984960008427,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.88,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780195623918-1.jpg?v=1783387529","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780195623918","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}