Book Details

• Author: Jaydip Chakrabarti

• Publisher: Patra Bharati

• Language: Bengali

• Binding: Hardcover

• Pages: 168

• ISBN: 9788199297593

About the Book
Ashomapto Prempatra is a tender and emotionally layered Bengali work by Jaydip Chakrabarti that brings together two deeply affecting novels, where love extends far beyond romance into memory, longing, ambition, and the quiet politics of everyday life.

The first novel unfolds through the eyes of adolescent Ribhu, who stumbles upon his father’s secret diary hidden inside an almirah. As he reads its intimate pages, Ribhu becomes fascinated by a past filled with unspoken emotions and love letters never sent. Inspired, he begins writing letters of his own—addressed in silence to his beloved Titir. But will Titir ever read them? And why is Ribhu’s father so insistent on shaping him into a “successful engineer”? What deeper truth lies hidden behind that dream?

The second novel, Jokhon Sondhya Name, opens into a broader social landscape. Set in rural and small-town Bengal of the 1980s and 1990s, it is both a love story and a vivid portrait of a generation of middle- and working-class people who dared to dream of a more just and humane society. Beyond greed and fear, they tried to rebuild life with labour, hope, and quiet courage.

Nostalgic, intimate, and rich in emotional depth, Ashomapto Prempatra is ideal for readers who love Bengali romantic fiction that reflects a larger time and change—stories where unfinished letters, unspoken feelings, and personal lives echo the broader rhythms of society.