Book Review of Trackers

BOOK REVIEW

TRACKERS

By

Bani Basu , Kolkata : Annada Publishers, Pages- 160, Price- 150.

A combination of first person narrator and at the same time third person narrator in a single novel has made  Bani Basu’s ‘TRECKERS’ peculiar as well as different from her previous novels. People who are interested in the life of young generation and also the attitude of aged people towards society especially towards the young generation of present time, and the reader of the different taste, in terms of style, story and also characterization, are to be considered as the target reader of this novel. Unlike most of the novels of the writer, there are two parallel stories which run side by side from the beginning and to the end. In one story, the author as a first person narrator, Dhrubo Jyoti Majumdar describes the reality which he and his family face. In the other story, the author as a third person narrator narrates about true accident. To present this before the reader the author takes help of mixing imagination and reality. These two parts present a common problem of all the young girls of all classes. Actually this hard reality is transferred from the author’s real life to imagination. At one level writer strongly criticizes the life style of young generation especially who are under-graduate of kolkata. At the same time the author also portraits the out look of aged people who can never see any thing better among the young generation and their conservative outlook towards different social issues and problems. There is a subtle irony in this book. On the one hand Dhrubo Jyoti Majumdar and his wife are bringing up three rootless girls for their children on the other hand their neighbor Bijoy Sur did not accept these girls as their won girls, he always call them their servants. Political influence on police is strongly described in this work to conjure up the two stories in the end. And author himself is confused about his imaginative characters. In the last part, the Narrator in his sub-conscious mind sees one of his imaginative characters. Arian asks him “At last you have made me a rapist!” and rests of the characters also say that “you aged people can not see anything better which young generations do”.

In a nut shell this novel is an out an out criticism of modern life. The author deep delves to find out the darkness of life style of young generation.

This book remains good   for its page quality, hard binding, print. Well illustrated cover design gives clue of the main theme of the story. There is no typological mistake in this book; the price of this book is not high. Everybody can afford to buy this book at an easiest effort. The author charms the reader through different style and mixing up a real accident with imagination.