Sometimes, under the weight of other people’s expectations from us, we forget who we truly are ‎and what we want from our lives. In his debut novel, Last Bench, a coming-of-age story set against the ...

In The Last Bench, Adhir Biswas returns to the landscapes of his childhood with the tenderness of a son and the precision of a chronicler. This deeply moving memoir, translated masterfully by V.

The Last Bench by the Bengali writer and publisher Adhir Biswas, translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy, gently yet radically unsettles the socio-economic spatiality we attach to the idea of the ...