Dozakhnama Rabishankar Bal - HARPERCOLLINS

Sometime in the late twentieth century, Manto’s unpublished novel surfaces in Lucknow, in which he and Ghalib converse from their respective graves, separated by a century and the distance between Lahore and Delhi. Their lives intertwine in shared dreams and the result is an intellectual journey that takes us into the history and perceptions that have shape the people and culture of our subcontinent in the last two centuries. The work of a fascinating mind, Bal’s Dozakhnama is a fascinating duet between two literary giants who were also very astute chroniclers of their times.

• Rabisankar Bal is a Bengali novelist and short-story writer, credited with over fifteen novels. He was born in the year 1962 and lives in Kolkata. He has won several awards namely, Sutapa Roychowdhury Memorial Prize, and Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar.