Danaola Manush by Binod Ghoshal [Hardcover]

Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuba in 2011,this book is a collection of 15 short-stories where the main theme is the loneliness prevalent among mankind nowadays.A compelling view focussing on the darker aspects of life. Vinod Ghoshal is a known name in the world of Bengali modern short stories. The author is not very old, but in a very short time he has been well received by the reader. The main theme of Vinod's story is not light, but darkness. Not joy, loneliness, helplessness of modern man. In that sense, Vinod is a black story writer. The words of the people of this time come out in his pen very ruthlessly. The greatest quality of his writing is readability. Once the reader starts reading his writings, he cannot stop. The stories in this collection are about very ordinary people like us. But his appeal has become universal in the Munshiana of what a strange pen. Incidentally, this book won the All India Literary Academy's First Youth Award.