About the Author

Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost writers. Her other novels include Romtha, In the Name of the Mother, and After Kurukshetra. Sagaree Sengupta teaches South Asian languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has collaborated on this translation with her mother, Mandira Sengupta, an artist who maintains an active interest in her native Bengali literature despite her long residence abroad.