| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9386050633 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9386050632 |
| No of pages | 232 |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 05 Nov 2016 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9386050633 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9386050632 |
| No of pages | 232 |
| Book Publisher | Speaking Tiger Books |
| Published Date | 05 Nov 2016 |
Mitra Phukan is an Indian author who writes in English. She is also a translator and columnist.[1]Her published literary works include four children's books, a biography, two novels, "The Collector's Wife" and
"A Monsoon of Music" (Penguin-Zubin) several volumes of translations of other novels and a collection of fifty of her columns, "Guwahati Gaze" Her most recent works are a collection of her own short stories
"A Full Night's Thievery" (Speaking Tiger 2016) and a collection of short stories in translation, "Aghion Bai and Other Stories" (2019) She writes extensively on Indian Music as a reviewer and essayist.
Her works have been translated into many languages, and several of them are taught in colleges and Universities.
As a translator herself, she has translated into English the works of some of the best known Assamese writers of fiction, including
"Blossoms in the Graveyard", a translation of Janeth Awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharjee's "Kobo Aru Pool" Her column "All Things Considered" in the Assam Tribune is widely read. She has been extensively anthologized, also.
Among the awards she has received so far have been the UNICEF-CBT Award for children's fiction, the Katha Award for Translation, the Telegraph-Vineet Gupta Memorial Award for short fiction, etc.
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A musician never realized the truth of the saying ‘Music is a harsh taskmaster’ until his beloved instrument exacts the highest sacrifice. An unfaithful husband is baffled: his wife grows more and more perfect until she literally becomes the goddess of plenty. A loving mother is naturally distraught at the kidnapping of her son by insurgents…or is she? And Modon Sur, with the spoils of a full night’s thievery in tow, finds himself in a sticky situation on a black amavasya night.
In this collection, Mitra Phukan sounds the rhythms of contemporary Assamese society, deftly weaving universal themes of love, loss and ageing with some of the issues facing the region: militancy, witchcraft, and the breakdown of traditional ways of life. Her stories acutely depict people’s struggles to relate to each other across vast social gulfs and within the intricacies of family and love. Intimate, allusive, and wryly observed, A Full Night’s Thievery is a finely drawn portrait of humanity by one of the most prominent literary voices in Assam today.