The Village

Mulk Raj Anand · 1939 CE · Novel · Indian · Modernist

Lalu Singh, youngest son of a Sikh peasant family sinking under a moneylender's interest, reads books he should not, cuts the hair his religion tells him to keep, and looks at a landlord's daughter he has no business looking at. The elders of a Punjab village answer with everything they have. First of the trilogy that follows one peasant boy out of his country and back.

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