His more recently written title, The Small Town Sea, was shortlisted for The Hindu Prize, while his Vanity Bagh had won it in 2013. Compared to the Mangobagh books, Descendants and Small Town Sea have firmer roots in reality. It is in Small Town Sea that the importance of a legacy is realized. The unnamed boy from The Small Town Sea is busily writing a correspondence with the same literary agent who rejected his father’s manuscript. The unnamed boy from Small Town Sea stops to see the mannequins at the shop window—parents and their two children, the perfect family.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 01, 2019 07:52 UTC