Gavi Bittanto

Gavi Bittanto is one of Ahmed Sofa’s most singular novels, the kind of book that does not really resemble anything else in Bengali fiction. The narrator finds himself thinking about cows, and what follows is part essay, part fiction, part the wandering mind of a serious thinker.

Ahmed Sofa wrote books exactly the way he wanted to. Some readers love this one immediately. Others come back to it years later and finally understand.