[Assam] More on Maati aru Manuh

[Chan Mahanta]

>Now I am also confused about Hitesh Deka's book.


*** You are not alone in this confusion Dr. Das.  As much as I hate 
to admit it, our advancing age probably has something to do with it. 
Steel-trap minded as we might fancy ourselves to be, the ravages of 
time are not necessarily limited to our bodies. The memories are 
getting fuzzy too.

:-).









At 4:21 PM +0000 12/13/07, DR BIKASH KUMAR DAS wrote:
>Dear Mr.Mahanta,
>Now I am also confused about Hitesh Deka's book.How many same title 
>book then????
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>Bikash
















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>Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
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>See note from my brother mm below.
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>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.
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>Maati aru Manuh WAS a translation of Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize
>winning epic Growth of the Soil.
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>http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780143105107
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>That Isak was the lead character as I remember well, is the clear
>proof, as is the story line.
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>So the author, most likely was Dinanath Sarma.
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>BTW it was a riveting book.
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>Growth of the Soil
>Synopsis
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>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
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>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
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>Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. The story of an
>elemental existence in rural Norway.
>More Reviews and Recommendations
>Biography
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>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.
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>>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
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>>>  Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:50:23 -0600
>>>  To: assam at assamnet.org
>>>  From: cmahanta at charter.net
>>>  Subject: Re: [Assam] Jayanta writes
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>>>  That is quite interesting.
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>>  > I can't wait to find out the REAL truth now :-).
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