HARKAMYA

Details:

• ISBN: 9789357203289

• Edition: 1

• Publishing Year: April 2025

• Pages: 176

• Language: Marathi

• Category: Fiction

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House

• Binding: Paperback

• Format: Paper Bag

Description:

Latif's life changes when he is appointed bellboy at the Paradise Lodge—a hotel where people come to die. After his father’s death, drowned in the waters surrounding their small island, it is 17-year-old Latif’s turn to become the man of the house and provide for his ailing mother and sisters.

Despite discovering a dead body on his first day of duty, Latif finds entertainment spying on guests and regaling the hotel’s janitor, Stella, with made-up stories. However, when Latif finds the corpse of a small-time actor in Room 555 and becomes a mute witness to a crime that happens there, the course of his life is irretrievably altered.

The Bellboy is as much a commentary on how society treats and victimizes the intellectually vulnerable as it is about the quiet resentment brewing against religious minorities in India today. With a mix of wry humor and heart-wrenching poignancy, the book narrates a young boy’s coming-of-age on a small island, and his innocence that persists even in the face of adversity and inevitable tragedy.