Literary Fiction

The Monsoon Letters

Some letters wait thirty years for the right reader.

Author: Ananya Bhattacharya  ·  Language: English  ·  Pages: 312

Rs 349

About This Novel

When Ira returns to Kolkata to close her grandmother's crumbling bookshop on College Street, she expects dust, debt and a fortnight of paperwork. What she finds instead is a tin trunk of letters written across three monsoons in the 1970s, addressed to a man who never collected them. The Monsoon Letters follows Ira as she reads them in order, one rain-soaked evening at a time, and slowly understands that the grandmother she thought she knew lived an entire life before motherhood.

Ananya Bhattacharya writes with restraint and warmth, letting the city do much of the emotional work. Trams, wet pavements, second-hand paperbacks and the smell of old paper form the backdrop for a story about ambition, quiet sacrifice and the choices women of that generation made without announcement. The novel moves between the 1970s letters and the present day, and each timeline sharpens the other.

This is a book for readers who love slow, character-driven fiction in the tradition of Anita Desai and Amitav Ghosh. It rewards attention, closes on a note that feels earned rather than engineered, and lingers for days after the final page.

Themes You Will Find Inside

• Family memory
• Kolkata in the 1970s
• Letters and lost time
• Women and ambition

Book Information

Title	The Monsoon Letters
Author	Ananya Bhattacharya
Genre	Literary Fiction
Language	English
Pages	312
Binding & Size	Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inch
Paper	Premium cream reading paper, matt laminated cover
ISBN	978-93-5000-101-2
Publisher	PrintoutRajan.shop, New Delhi
Price	Rs 349 (delivery charged separately)

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