Rabi-Shankar

• Author: Kunal Basu
• Genre: Novel (Upanyas)
• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789350407318
• Pages: 184
• Weight: 310 grams
• Publisher: Ananda Publishers

Book Summary:

After twenty-eight years, Shankar unexpectedly reappears in Rabi's life. Time has transformed them both—Rabi, once a Naxalite youth of the 1970s, is now a successful, UK-returned doctor, while Shankar, formerly a ruthless police officer, has retired into a modest, ordinary life.

As their rekindled friendship takes shape, Shankar enters Rabi’s family life, awakening long-buried memories. But what does Shankar truly want?

• A favor in return for their past connection?
• A chance at redemption?
• Or something more ominous that could shake Rabi’s very existence?

A gripping psychological drama that explores friendship, power, and redemption, Rabi-Shankar is a thought-provoking novel that keeps readers hooked till the end.

About the Author:

Kunal Basu was born on May 4, 1956, in Kolkata and currently resides between Oxford and Kolkata.

• He completed his graduation from Jadavpur University and pursued Master’s and Doctorate degrees in the United States.
• He has been a professor at McGill University in Canada and later at Oxford University.
• An acclaimed English-language novelist, his five novels—
  • The Opium Clerk
  • The Miniaturist
  • Racists
  • The Yellow Emperor’s Cure
  • Kalkatta
    —have been widely praised, translated into multiple languages, and received awards.
• He is also the author of the short story collection The Japanese Wife, which inspired a critically acclaimed film of the same name.
• Apart from fiction, he has spent twenty-five years writing on photography, folk art, travel, and critical essays.
• He has also acted in theater and films.