Critical essays regarding some of the most discussed and highly praised novels of the modern and post-modern era. Includes- Milan Kundera's "The Joke"("Žert"), Rabindranath Tagore's "Jogajog", Elfried Jelinek's "Women As Lovers", Manik Bandopadhyay's "Dhara badha jiban", Arundhuti Roy's "The God of the small things", Satinath Bhaduri's "Dhorai Charitmanas", J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace", Samaresh Basu's "Bibar", Gabriel Garcia Marqueze's "Memories of my melancholy whores" and Amiyabhusan Majumder's novels.
