![]() ![]() The book is covered in a red open weave cloth with leather title label on the spine. This particular Folio Society edition printed in 1971 is translated by T.W Clark and Tarapada Mukherji, and has lithographs by Janet Archer. It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928, and was published as a book the next year. It is a classic bildungsroman (a type of coming-of-age story) in the canon of Bengali literature. ![]() Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, both in their ancestral village in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels. Pather Panchali, translated as Song of the Road, is a 1929 novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay that was later adapted into a 1955 film of the same name by Satyajit Ray. ![]()
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