যক্ষ সম্পাত

by Himadri Kishore Dasgupta

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Anish Bhowmik · Rating 2 out of 5]

3.5

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short book dealing with a very difficult, if-not outright taboo subject (at least in Bengali literature): that's how this book should be described. Because of its brevity, the amount of copious research that has been done by the author (one of the best writers in the field of Juvenile literature at present, and this is one of his rarer forays in the world of stuff for the adults) stands out. This research, and the characters, have been handled with a delicate and sensitive touch that veils the subject and allows the reader to become detached from the protagonist. That should have worked, given the fact that the author wanted to leave us also at crossroads at the end of the novel, along-with the protagonist. Unfortunately, since we had been caught up with the story and wanted to know how it ends for the protagonist, that ambiguous ending didn't work. Hence dropping 2 stars, with the hope that the author concludes this narrative arc somewhere, rather than making us all go full circle again.