Kafan

Name: Kafan
Author: Premchand

by Premchand

A dark novella about two poor parents considering infanticide during a plague

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Premchand

The most beloved Hindi and Urdu novelist, whose fiction gave voice to the rural poor, low-caste workers, and women of north India. Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) is his masterpiece, a tragedy of agrarian indebtedness.

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