Fajal Ali Ashche by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

After completing two hundred days of hunger strike, Fazal Ali still survives. But is he a real character, or is he a symbol? Is he a laid-off worker, or is he a liberator of people, a great revolutionary, the greatest friend of the proletariat, who struck the fiercest blow across the world? Poor people in homes and streets will wait for Fazal Ali. He will teach them how to bind stones to the pot, how to build a fortress, how to draw vitamins, calcium, and protein from nature, like trees. That waiting has already begun. Fazal Ali is coming.

He has discovered the secret—how to stay alive even when there's no food. If one can reconcile these two things, the world and life will become beautiful. Fazal Ali has learned this profound secret, the hidden process, and he's coming to teach it through his devotion. His pace is unstoppable. Fazal Ali is coming.

This new novel by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay is unique in both subject and flavor. There's no artifice; the familiar life around us is presented with all its naturalness, yet the story remains astonishingly fresh. Fresh and unparalleled.