The Runaway Boy

Author:

Manoranjan Byapari

,

V. Ramaswamy

Publisher:

Eka

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Publisher

Eka

Publication Year 2020
ISBN-13

9789389648850

ISBN-10 9789389648850
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 370 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 14 x 2.36 x 21.6
Weight (grms) 310

The first part of Byapari’s extraordinary trilogy of novels begins in East Pakistan. It tells the story of little Jibon, who arrives at a refugee camp in West Bengal as an infant in the arms of his Dalit parents escaping from the Muslim-majority nation. Deprived of the customary sweetness of a few drops of honey at birth, he grows up perpetually hungry for hot rice in the camp where the treatment meted out to dispossessed families like his is deplorable.

Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari writes in Bengali. He was born in the mid-fifties in Barishal, Bangladesh. His family migrated to West Bengal in India when he was three. They were resettled in Bankura at the Shiromanipur Refugee Camp. Later, they were forced to shift to the Gholadoltala Refugee Camp, 24 Parganas, and lived there till 1969. However, Byapari had to leave home at the age of fourteen to do odd jobs.

V. Ramaswamy

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