Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of 25 Bengali short stories, the book is a testimony to the assertion that the foremost writers of Bengali short stories (Rabindranath Tagore, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Somen Chanda, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, and Rajshekhar Basu among them) can equal the greatest exponents of the genre including Maupassant, O Henry, Chekhov, and Tolstoy.