Kancher Deoyal by Suchitra Bhattacharya [Hardcover]

Today, Brishti turns eighteen. The age of eighteen has come to Brishti in a form that feels even more unbearable, even more defiant than the poem by Sukanta. It has come as a strange temptation for a game. A stubborn game of disobeying her mother and testing her father. This is the game Brishti will now play. This is the Brishti for whom her mother, Jaya Roy, won custody rights in a divorce case. This is the Brishti whose father, Subir Roy, had once threatened Jaya on the veranda of Alipore Judge's Court - let's see how you can keep my daughter when she turns eighteen. Today, Brishti is eighteen. On one side, there is the eighteen-year-old Brishti, and on the other, two estranged people - a man and a woman; on one side, a unique life, and on the other, a group of people searching for the meaning of that life in their own way. This is the compelling story of an extraordinary tug-of-war, "Kacher Dewal" (Glass Wall). Just as sharp is the pen of Suchitra Bhattacharya, and just as rare is this novel. Recent yet eternal.