Description
A relic lost in time. A kidnapped uncle and evil criminals after him. What will young Santu do now?
The Dreadful Beauty
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Translated from the Bengali original by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
Illustrations by Sayan Chakraborty, Cover Design by Antara Ghosh
A relic lost in time. A kidnapped uncle and evil criminals after him. What will young Santu do now?
The debut Kakababu novel, is at the same time a tale of adventure, mystery, and thrill with many nail-biting moments.Award: IBBY Honor List 2012 (First Indian title in translation to be awarded the biennial selection of outstanding books)
About the Book
While everyone else is vacationing, Raja Roychoudhury aka Kakababu and his nephew Santu are busy measuring the mountains of Pahalgam and Sonmarg. Kakababu is looking for a significant antique relic that could help to rewrite an important chapter in Indian history!
Their excursion takes an adventurous turn when Sucha Singh, a low-life of the area, assuming that the duo is searching for gold, kidnaps Kakababu. A young Santu is then left to his wits to save his uncle and also the mysterious artefact from the clutches of the criminal. How will he do so? Will he be successful?
Sunil Gangopadhyay’s The Dreadful Beauty, the debut Kakababu novel, is at the same time a tale of adventure, mystery, and thrill with many nail-biting moments.
About the Translator
Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee dons numerous caps as scholar, translator, editor, and cultural administrator. But, his first love lies in translations from one Indian language into another and into English as a way for better understanding about the literature and culture of different regions. He is also fascinated with children’s literature and has successfully connected the expanding gap between
