Satideha by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

"Runu is mesmerized as she searches for the painter who paints the dawn every day. When someone from the upstairs flat destroys a crow's nest, the sight of the dead baby birds sets her mind on fire. Little Richa, has to search for a rat's hole where Richa can place her tooth wrapped in cotton. She has to happily accept the breakfast invitation from a remorseful Vandana Boudi. She must tell Murchona a story that is part fairy tale, part illusion, a mix of fog and surrealism, about a mysterious place. So many things happen in Runu's life! Secretly, there is a deep connection with Lamding, a bicycle, and a shy girl named Sati. Today, the musician and the madman inside Runu have died; she herself is a corpse. Yet why does Murchona call her in the dead of night, forbidding her from going to the park? In Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's novel Satideho, love thickens and fills the air like the scent of flowers, like the fragrance of incense."