The Diary of a Maidservant($24.95Value)

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The book is a translation of a novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid,a pre-eminent author of Hindi stories, novels, and dramas. Dedicated to hard-working women domestics, The Diary of a Maidservant delineates the life and thoughts of Shanti, a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. Through the "diary," given as a gift to Shanti, the teenage maidservant slowly discovers her impulses, dreams, and contradictions, and the reader is gradually drawn into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants and men and women. Here is a translation of the novel by Krishna Baldev Vaid, a pre-eminent author of Hindi stories, novels, and dramas. Krishna Baldev Vaid is a pre-eminent author of Hindi stories, novels, and dramas, whose work has been translated into English and other languages. He was a professor of English for twenty years in the US, and now lives in New Delhi. Sagaree Sengupta is Lecturer in Asian Studies, Bates College, Lewistone, Maine. She has published poetry and short fiction in English, and has translated literature from Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali.