Those Days (novel)

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Those Days
The cover image of Those Days
AuthorSunil Gangopadhyay
Original titleসেই সময় (Sei Samay)
TranslatorAruna Chakravorty
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherAnanda Publishers, Penguin Books
Published in English
1997
AwardsSahitya Akademi Award
ISBN9780140268522
OCLC39516159
Followed byFirst Light 

Those Days (Bengali: সেই সময়) is an award-winning historical novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was first published as a serialized novel in Bengali literary magazine Desh. Sunil Gangopadhyay won Sahitya Akademi Award for this novel in 1985. The story of the novel centers around many historical figures including Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath Tagore and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune the English educationists, and others.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Those Days". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 24 October 2012.