{"product_id":"maa","title":"Maa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a story of human emotions—love, greed, jealousy, forbearance, desire and forgiveness—as they play out in the inner sanctum of the home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaa revolves around four characters in a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century setting in the aftermath of the social churning caused by the Bengal Renaissance. Aurobindo Basu is the well-educated scion of a rich, influential Kayastha family. He has two wives: Manorama, the charming daughter of poverty-stricken parents whom he married against his father’s will and who was soon disowned by his patriarchal father; and Brajarani, a beautiful, wealthy, strong-willed lady who Aurobindo was forced to marry due to the threat of disinheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the old patriarch also disowned Manorama’s son Ajit, Brajarani was unable to produce an heir. Manorama lived in dire straits but found fulfilment in caring for Ajit; in contrast, Brajarani had everything that a woman could materially desire but was bereft of her husband’s love and was immensely resentful of her abandoned co-wife. What such a situation can do to a young, innocent mind is reflected in Ajit’s coming of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaa is a period piece on the private world of Bengali women as viewed through the unique lens of an extraordinarily gifted writer who belonged to and knew that society intimately.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45082317127859,"sku":"9789361565663","price":316.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81VOxVDVKEL.jpg?v=1762898321","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/maa","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}