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A grand family saga set in Calcutta during the last two decades of British rule, this is Bengali maestro Buddhadeva Boses greatest novelHow strange this life was for womenthey were born only to go away, and that was their way of getting everything in life. Of Rajen Mitras five lovely daughters, it is the youngestthe beautiful, intelligent Swatiwho is the apple of her fathers eye. As she grows from an impetuous, spirited child to a lonely young woman, Swati is witness to the upheavals and joys of the Mitra family even as the country slides towards the promise of independence and the inevitability of war.Anxious to ensure that his daughters find suitable husbands, Rajen-babu realizes it is only a matter of time before his favourite child too must leave home. While the boorish entrepreneur Prabir Majumdar decides that she will make him a fitting wife, Swati finds herself increasingly drawn to Satyen, the young professor who introduces her to a world of books and the heady poetry of Tagore and Coleridge. First published in Bengali as Tithidore in 1949, When the Time Is Right is a moving tale of a family and a nation.
About the AuthorBuddhadeva Bose (190874) was one of the most versatile Bengali writers of the twentieth century. His works include novels, plays, poems and short stories. His Moner Moto Meye (My Kind of Girl) has been published in nine languages. Raat Bhorey Brishti (It Rained All Night), banned when it was first published in 1967, went on to become a best-seller. Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and the Padma Bhushan in 1970, and was posthumously honoured with the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974.Arunava Sinha is an award-winning translator of classic and contemporary fiction. His published translations include Sankars Chowringhee and The Middleman, Buddhadeva Boses My Kind of Girl, Dibyendu Palits Illicit, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyays There Was No One at the Bus Stop and a collection of Banaphools short stories What Really Happened. Born and educated in Kolkata, he now lives in New Delhi.
