A Nowhere Man

Sudipto’s people pull me like string magnets. Difficult to stop reading” - Ujjal Chakraborty Eminent novelist and National Awardee film scholar. Captures an artist’s deepest longings restlessness loss void and confusion. The surreal and the real merge to create a certain delicious madness. The narrative is gorgeous deeply moving lyrical and hilarious” - Brahmanand Singh National awardee and a leading writer. Conventionally a first novel often suffers the contradictions inherent in sentimentality and piety. It is also branded with the blemish of autobiography. A first-time novelist is eager to pour out his heart and hence his work becomes baroque in its excesses. The author of A Nowhere Man realizes and relishes all that. He is by your leave the quintessential zealot exploring a narrative and expounding a thesis at the same time. What emerges is a work that is comic sentimental and macabre. The novel is an irreverent exercise at madness and mindless mayhem within the confines of a racy narrative exterior. There is both conceit and humility garbed in the guise of Avant-Garde adventure. On the one hand it tells the simple story of those who loved made love lost or won on the other it aspires to be a pious elegy of suffering in transit.