Rahul Bhattacharya

Railsong (MP3-Download)

A Novel Ungekürzte Lesung. 800 Min.
Sprecher: Bhuchar, Sudha

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Produktbeschreibung

'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDAR A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India. In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay. Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open —sometimes guilelessly — to her nation's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526692375
• Artikelnr.: 75249199

Autorenporträt

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of the Ondaatje Prize–winning and Man Asian Literary Prize–shortlisted The Sly Company of People Who Care. His journalism has been published by Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives in Delhi.

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Rahul Bhattacharya is an extraordinary writer, and Railsong is a majestic yet profoundly tender novel. Vigorously alive to the currents of national change as well as to the tragedy, daring, humour and love experienced in one woman's days and years, Railsong bids us to observe the worth and intricacy of one person's journey