Dashti Upanyas by Joy Goswami [Hardcover]

In contemporary prose literature, Joy Goswami's novels are an experimental addition. A vulnerable person repeatedly stands at the crossroads in a hesitant manner in Joy’s novels. In a breathless style, the language plays with melancholic sexuality, mute love, hidden tears, and loneliness. It’s like an unconventional reading of ordinary life. Somewhere, the days that once slept now awaken in the writing of a dying poet. Somewhere, in reference to Jibanananda’s foxes, an odd girl says, "They might have been beaten somewhere... chased." Some carry the cursed burden of songs in their minds but are unable to sing. A painter father watches in amazement as, when evening falls, light comes out of his daughter’s lantern. Somewhere, a ghostly ancestor runs around, crying out in agony about planting a child in a woman’s womb. In Joy Goswami’s Dashti Upanyas (Ten Novels), the works collected include Monoramer Upanyas (The Novels of Monorama), Sei Shyalarah (Those Foxes), Surongo O Pratiraksha (The Tunnel and the Defense), Shob Ondhokar Phulgachh (All Dark Flower Trees), Sanjhbati'r Rupkotha (Fairy Tales of the Lantern), Brahmarakshash (The Demon), Dada Bhai'r Para (The Neighborhood of Grandfather), Hashir Kothai To Hochhilo (It Was All About Laughter), Anupam Katha (The Unmatched Stories), and Preetpurush (The Ghostly Ancestor). In all these works, the familiar wall between prose and poetry is gradually erased in the light of deep consciousness.