Falling Walls

Daisy Rockwell

Select Preferred Format

‘One of the titans of twentieth-century Hindi literature’—Caravan

A young man from Jalandhar longs to become a writer but fails at every turn. Upendranath Ashk’s 1947 novel explores in great detail the trials and tribulations of Chetan. From the back galis of Lahore and Jalandhar to Shimla’s Scandal Point, Falling Walls offers a rich and intimate portrait of lower-middle-class life in the 1930s and the hurdles an aspiring writer must overcome to fulfil his ambitions.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Jun/2015

ISBN: 9780143423690

Length : 510 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Falling Walls

Upendranath Ashk

Daisy Rockwell

‘One of the titans of twentieth-century Hindi literature’—Caravan

Select Preferred Format

People who read Falling Walls also read

Dust On The Mountain

Ruskin Bond

Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto, Aatish Taseer

A Bird on My Windowsill

Manav Kaul

The Accidental Prime Minister

Sanjaya Baru

Where the Cobbled Path Leads

Avinuo Kire

Lustre

Abdus Samad

Paiso

Maya Bathija

The Complete Short Stories: Vol. 4

Premchand (M. Asaduddin Ed.)

Upendranath Ashk

Name: Falling Walls
Author: jogi

UPENDRANATH ASHK, 1910-1996, was one of Hindi literature's best known and most controversial authors. Ashk was born in Jalandhar and spent the early part of his writing career as an Urdu author in Lahore. Encouraged by Premchand, he switched to Hindi, and a few years before Partition, moved to Bombay, Delhi and finally Allahabad in 1948, where he spent the rest of his life. By the time of his death, Ashk's phenomenally large oeuvre spanned over a hundred volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir, criticism and translation. Ashk is perhaps best known for his six-volume novel cycle, Girti Divarein, or Falling Walls-an intensely detailed chronicle of the travails of a young Punjabi man attempting to become a writer-which has earned the author comparisons to Marcel Proust. Ashk was the recipient of numerous prizes and awards during his lifetime for his masterful portrayal, by turns humorous and remarkably profound, of the everyday lives of ordinary people.

Daisy Rockwell

Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer and translator living in northern New England, USA. Apart from her essays on literature and art, she has written Upendranath Ashk: A Critical Biography, The Little Book of Terror and the novel Taste. Her highly acclaimed translations include, among others, Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls and Bhisham Sahni's Tamas, published in Penguin Classics.

More By The Authors

The Penguin India 2022 Booker Prize Winners

Shehan Karunatilaka, Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell

Tomb of Sand Special Edition

Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell

Tomb of Sand - WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell