SHASHI DESHPANDE: THAT LONG SILENCE

Shashi Deshpande That Long Silence Shashi Deshpande’s novel, That Long Silence, can be read as a modern classic which provides insights into the core issues that affect human relationships, particularly in Indian society. From its opening observation, “To achieve anything, to become anything, You’ve got to be hard life would be impossible, and life has always to be made possible,” there is nineteen years of silence between the narrator-protagonist Jaya and her hard boiled husband Mohan, who continuously hovers on the fringes of social and personal snobbery. This critical study of the novel provides exhaustive critical material to help the students and scholars master the novel for their understanding and use for examination purposes. All scholarly needs of the students will be filled by this lucid and illuminating guide. Critical highlights of the novel, selected critical questions with answers, character-sketches and a detailed chapter-wise summary of the novel with a running critical commentary are some of the significant features of this book. Dr. B. S. Goyal is an internationally-known author on literature and language. He has over 50 years of teaching, research and writing experience in India and U.S.A, he brings his wealth of knowledge to all his writing. He has authored over dozen scholarly books and scores of critical studies for student.

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