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Bandook Gali: A Fiction Drawn from the Margins of History
Paperback
Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bandook Gali or Gun Lane is a literary work of historical fiction that listens to what history leaves unsaid.
Set in a narrow lane in the heart of Calcutta, the novel unfolds through memories shaped by silence rather than testimony. When a child encounters an object that does not belong to his time, the discovery does not lead to answers. Instead, it opens a slow exploration of inheritance, rumor, and the quiet weight carried across generations. A grandfather's restraint, a lane's enduring name, and a city's selective memory become threads in a story where the past survives not as record, but as residue.
Drawn from the margins of history, this novel does not seek to resolve its mysteries. It bears witness to them. Told with restraint and lyrical precision, Bandook Gali reflects on how ordinary lives coexist with extraordinary histories, and how some truths persist only because they were never spoken aloud.
This book will appeal to readers of serious literary fiction, historical narratives rooted in place, and stories that value memory, atmosphere, and moral quiet over spectacle.
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