Kirjahaku

Arun Goswami is a significant novelist cum short story writer of Assam. He holds the world record of authoring the longest book of the world which is more than 10000 pages. He is a prolific writer and his writings bear social responsibility. He calls a spade a spade and he has consistently written about insurgency in assam. His themes are varied and he is almost an octogenarian. This is a unique book in the sense that for the first time his writings are appearing in English translation from Assamese and the translator Subhajit Bhadra has done a good job as the readers of English knowing Indians and western countries will get a taste of the smell of the soil of Assam in a different way. In this book Arun Goswami has shown his versatility. It is hoped that the readers will enjoy these stories.

Since the beginning of 2nd half of 20th century various critical theories came into existence and every student and teacher of literature was influenced by those theories which were basically addressing the demands of other social sciences. But theoretical schools of western part of the world also inspired colonial and postcolonial reimagining. The present book employs many of those theories without being obscure or ambiguous. The book gets a wider value because the writer expresses his views, reviews, interviews and critical essays which are theory oriented. An extra value of the book is that author here also plays the role of a translator. And last but not the least the robust language plays a great job here and the domain is world literature.