--- product_id: 34028015 title: "Mother of 1084" price: "₱2782" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/34028015-mother-of-1084 store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Mother of 1084 **Price:** ₱2782 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mother of 1084 - **How much does it cost?** ₱2782 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/34028015-mother-of-1084) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Mahasweta Devi is one of India’s foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels, and a deeply political social activist who has been working in marginalized communities for decades. Mother of 1084 is one of Devi’s most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation―a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government, leading to the widespread murder of young rebels across Bengal. This novel focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the police morgue, reduced to a mere numeral: Corpse No. 1084. Through her struggle to understand his revolutionary commitment as a Naxalite, she recognizes her own alienation―as a woman and a wife―from the complacent, hypocritical, and corrupt feudal society her son had so fiercely rebelled against. Review: The mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi (a critical study of the true value of woman at home and society) - A wonderful book and like the great cinematographers of the golden age of Mexico and Japan a life is transformed within the span of the day. The heroine relating the story of her life with her son as she celebrates alone the death anniversary of her son. The tension of Government and oppressed values and liberties of the dispossessed laborers are defended by idealistic students in Bengal. The struggle for justice is universal. The sons ideals Are like Che Guevara's in Latin America who also came from the same proletariat class. Free of hunger and ill health he has learned to despise the business class with all its glitter and false values. Mother and son are outwardly different but in the end they are soul mates living under the same roof of hypocrisy and lies. She is submissive and dresses in the style of her class, he dresses in beloved worn out clothing. He is outspoken in his views and rebels joining the student Nextel movement. She is his mother and his true soul mate in loving simplicity and truth that he is the first to identify in her despite the need of many years suffer submission and abuse from her husband and class. Superbly narrated, the woman who goes out from her palatial house in the morning to visit the humble home of her sons best friend comes back in the evening transformed, strong to speak the voice of the woman who had been lost for So many years in submission and abuse and rises now strong to defend the memory of her son and her own values at home and in society. Review: The book reeks - I feel bad giving this book three stars because it's obviously not the writer's (or translater's) fault AT ALL. The writing itself is great, but the book was virtually unreadable because of how bad it smelled. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,933,648 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11,194 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #16,799 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #17,328 in Family Life Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 163 Reviews | ## Images ![Mother of 1084 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61-ouFeK3xL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi (a critical study of the true value of woman at home and society) *by S***A on October 14, 2014* A wonderful book and like the great cinematographers of the golden age of Mexico and Japan a life is transformed within the span of the day. The heroine relating the story of her life with her son as she celebrates alone the death anniversary of her son. The tension of Government and oppressed values and liberties of the dispossessed laborers are defended by idealistic students in Bengal. The struggle for justice is universal. The sons ideals Are like Che Guevara's in Latin America who also came from the same proletariat class. Free of hunger and ill health he has learned to despise the business class with all its glitter and false values. Mother and son are outwardly different but in the end they are soul mates living under the same roof of hypocrisy and lies. She is submissive and dresses in the style of her class, he dresses in beloved worn out clothing. He is outspoken in his views and rebels joining the student Nextel movement. She is his mother and his true soul mate in loving simplicity and truth that he is the first to identify in her despite the need of many years suffer submission and abuse from her husband and class. Superbly narrated, the woman who goes out from her palatial house in the morning to visit the humble home of her sons best friend comes back in the evening transformed, strong to speak the voice of the woman who had been lost for So many years in submission and abuse and rises now strong to defend the memory of her son and her own values at home and in society. ### ⭐⭐⭐ The book reeks *by K***E on October 26, 2020* I feel bad giving this book three stars because it's obviously not the writer's (or translater's) fault AT ALL. The writing itself is great, but the book was virtually unreadable because of how bad it smelled. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi *by S***A on April 27, 2014* A superb account. In the style of Kurosawa and Satyajit Ray. the story develops in four segments. Starts in the morning with meek Sujata going to another part of town to meet the mother of her son's best friend and The girl her son loved. The only people that once a year on the death anniversary of Batri, she is allowed to grieve with. They also lost loved ones during the student riots of Kolkata in a brutal handling with the police. The luxury of the sari she wears is in stark contrast with the poverty lived in the 2 households she visits. Batri just like her preferred to be in the company of people who deprived of every necessity can live and love and grieve. Sujata's household represents the false values and hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie conveniently refusing to acknowledge Batri's death and father and siblings further embarrased now by the new given identity given by police as #1084. A brutal government seal to distance him further from those holding approved values to prosper and live.. The triumph occurs at the end of the day when Sujata comes back home as an empowered woman and makes a stand. Magnificent use of language and thought provoking. 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