Name: Godan
ISBN: 9788172242190

Premchand

Godan, a story of stark realism is Premchand’s most outstanding work. It is his last completed novel which brings out the realistic interpretation of Indian village society. This is a story of people, hungry and semi starved, yet hopeful and optimistic in the truest spirit of the age it represent.

Godan

Munshi Premchand

'Godan' is an epic in Hindi prose. It is the most famous work of Munshi Premchand. 'Godan' gives a vivid picture of the condition of Indian farmers during the author's lifetime. The novel is relevant today because the rural folks' problems still exist. Farmers have generally been exploited by money-lenders, government officials and superstitious community members. Hori, a well-off cultivator, suffers for his dependence on these exploiters. He works very hard, grows various crops, yet starves with his family because almost all his crops are given away to clear the creditor' dues. He efforts to protect his family dignity but fails because he was continuously exploited.

Prashanth Srivatsa

A monumental book, Godan is India's backbone on on paper. Premchand flushes out hypocrisy, poverty and desperation, seemingly interlinked so that it becomes hard to say which was the cause, and which the effect. The destitute characters often leave their most critical choices in life to dharma and God; honor and prestige take the shapes of cows and land; the rich justify the miseries they heap on the poor, and above all, we live in a country where love is expendable. Godan is the novel every Indian should read.

Godan

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