Written by Ashutosh Bhardwaj |Updated: April 6, 2019 12:31:56 am
Book review: The cities he loved and lost
A translation of the second part of Upendranath Ashk’s multi-volume novel in Hindi brings to life the city of Jalandhar in the 1930s through the eyes of its dissolute, disillusioned protagonist
Upendranath Ashk
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
Penguin Random House
504 pages
Rs 599
The multi-volume novel cycle of Upendranath Ashk is, perhaps, the most voluminous Indian fiction of the 20th century. It begins with Girti Deevarein (1947) and ends at Iti Niyati (left incomplete when Ashk passed away in 1996), covering the struggles of an aspiring writer Chetan who carries a distinct autobiographical streak reminiscent of Ashk’s own life. Daisy Rockwell, who has translated the first volume, Falling Walls, besides a collection of Ashk’s stories, is now back with the translation of the second part, In the City a Mirror Wandering (Shahar Mein Ghoomta Aaina, 1963).
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