Pranparbat

• Author: Amitav Ghosh (অমিতাভ ঘোষ)
• Genre: Children's Story (Kishor Kahini)
• Binding: Hardback (ISBN: 9789354254512)
• Pages: 44
• Weight: 128 grams

Description:
"Pranparbat" takes readers to a dreamlike world where the narrator, a young girl, grows up in a high Himalayan valley. The story is set against the backdrop of a magnificent, snow-covered mountain named Mahaparbat, which is a living entity that blesses the valley with peace and prosperity. However, the peaceful existence is disturbed when foreign destructive forces intrude. This tale explores the tragic story of the mountain's fall and the end of its blessing—a poignant narrative of nature's loss in the face of external threats.

Author Bio:
Amitav Ghosh was born in Dhaka in 1956 and spent his childhood in Colombo. He studied in Dehradun, Delhi, and Oxford, where he pursued anthropology and history. He has worked with various universities across the globe and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. Amitav Ghosh is internationally renowned for his literary works in English, and his books have been translated into numerous languages. His notable works include The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1988), In An Antique Land (1993), The Calcutta Chromosome (1996), and Dancing in Cambodia/At Large in Burma (1998). His book The Shadow Lines won the 1990 Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial Anand Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award.