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Mother of 1084 Paperback – January 1, 1997

by Mahasweta Devi (Author)

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Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. Mother of 1084 is one of Devi’s most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation―a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government, leading to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the police morgue, reduced to a mere numeral: Corpse No. 1084. Through her struggle to understand his revolutionary commitment as a Naxalite, she recognizes her own alienation―as a woman and a wife―from the complacent, hypocritical, and corrupt feudal society her son had so fiercely rebelled against.

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Seagull Books
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January 1, 1997
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5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
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8170461391
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978-8170461395
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Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) was a writer and social activist. She was the author of numerous novels, essays, and short stories.

Samik Bandyopadhyay is an eminent critic, scholar, and translator.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seagull Books; 1st edition (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8170461391
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8170461395
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches

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Kate

The book reeks

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 26, 2020

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I feel bad giving this book three stars because it's obviously not the writer's (or translater's) fault AT ALL. The writing itself is great, but the book was virtually unreadable because of how bad it smelled.

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The mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi (a critical study of the true value of woman at home and society)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2014

A wonderful book and like the great cinematographers of the golden age of Mexico and Japan a life is transformed within the span of the day. The heroine relating the story of her life with her son as she celebrates alone the death anniversary of her son.
The tension of Government and oppressed values and liberties of the dispossessed laborers are defended by idealistic students in Bengal. The struggle for justice is universal. The sons ideals Are like Che Guevara's in Latin America who also came from the same proletariat class. Free of hunger and ill health he has learned to despise the business class with all its glitter and false values. Mother and son are outwardly different but in the end they are soul mates living under the same roof of hypocrisy and lies. She is submissive and dresses in the style of her class, he dresses in beloved worn out clothing. He is outspoken in his views and rebels joining the student Nextel movement. She is his mother and his true soul mate in loving simplicity and truth that he is the first to identify in her despite the need of many years suffer submission and abuse from her husband and class.

Superbly narrated, the woman who goes out from her palatial house in the morning to visit the humble home of her sons best friend comes back in the evening transformed, strong to speak the voice of the woman who had been lost for
So many years in submission and abuse and rises now strong to defend the memory of her son and her own values at home and in society.

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sambrita roy

Come to me, Brati!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 16, 2020

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Everything about this book was so emotionally charged. Two years after his son Brati's tragic death, mother Sujata goes into his world to understand him better. Every line of the book was a feeling was every mother's tear, mother of 1084. A psychological book and a travel into a grieving mother's heart this book is a gem, and the first book ever I cried on. The binding and pages of the book are of the best quality and the translation is at its best too. Go for it, without a second thought.

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Trisha

Whichever part of the world we may go; whichever ...

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on October 4, 2016

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Whichever part of the world we may go; whichever era we might belong to, Mothers are the same everywhere.
This book caused a chaos inside my head and with every page I turned I felt agitated with the tragedy. But, this overwhelming emotions through the book will move anyone who reads this book, without any exception.

She is no more with us, but it's never too late to pay a tribute to her by immersing in her literary work and understanding her words.

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Gauri

Masterpiece!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on April 19, 2021

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Loved the book.. I loved how the author brought sensitivity and emotions to this intense and serious subject. Each sentence hits the nail!
The potryal of anguish, helplessness in the agreived and the hypocrisy, haughtiness in the non affected society is so profound and factual.
It's truly a masterpiece.. would definitely read more of the author and the subject...

Surraija

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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on November 7, 2021

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The print at first glance looks perfect but when you start reading, you realise it's just average. I found a page incorrectly attached in the beginning. :-(