[Assam] More on Maati aru Manuh

[Chan Mahanta]

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.

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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: assam at assamnet.org
>>  From: cmahanta at charter.net
>>  Subject: Re: [Assam] Jayanta writes
>>
>>  That is quite interesting.
>>
>  > I can't wait to find out the REAL truth now :-).
>>