{"product_id":"paraja","title":"Paraja","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten originally in Oriya in 1945 and translated here for the first time, Paraja is a classic of modern Indian fiction. It tells on an epic scale the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa. The slow decline in the fortunes of this family - from the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the local moneylender - is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of the erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities. The novel, furthermore, transcends what it documents because its characters are not merely primitive tribesmen ensnared by a predatory moneylender. Mohanty's protagonists are also quintessentially men and women waging heroic but futile war against a hostile universe. As the citation of the Jnanpith Award of 1974 put it - 'in Mohanty's hands the social is lifted to the level of the metaphysical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gopinath Mohanty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43643422244925,"sku":"9780195623918","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780195623918.jpg?v=1789683589","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/paraja","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}