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The River Churning

The River Churning

Jyotirmoyee DeviEnakshi Chatterjee

1995

Genres: Literary Fiction

Set in Noakhali in 1946, this novel provides a searing commentary on Partition and history's erasure of women from its annals. Through its stories of Sutara, a young Hindi girl, it also denunciates patriarchy's obsession with women's sexual purity.

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