by Munshi Premchand
Premchand's novella Nirmala, first published in 1928, is one of the most poignant novels in Hindi on the theme of the young adolescent yoked to an elderly husband. Clearly reformist in its agenda, this novel succeeds in exploring sensitive and even dangerous terrain.
Reviews about Nirmala
This bitter melodrama was first published, in Hindi, in 1925, and has aged well.... Nirmala is a fine introduction to the work of a 20th-century master of Hindi literature."--Virginia Quarterly Review
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, प्रेमचंद (July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936) was a writer of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. In India, he is generally recognized as the foremost writer in both Hindi and Urdu during the early twentieth century.