Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu

Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu (, ) is a Bengali novel written by Bangladeshi author Humayun Azad. It was first published in February, 2000 in Ekushey Book Fair by Agamee Prakashani. The novel deals with rural life of Bikrampur of 1950s decade and believed to be inspired by author's own childhood life as Azad was also born and brought up in Bikrampur which is now known as Munshiganj District, however the fictitious character Jalkador, who is the main protagonist of the novel, is an illiterate boy.
This novel is considered one of the best novels written by Humayun Azad.
Subject.
The main subject of the novel is about growing-up of a boy named Jalkador in Rarhikhal village of Bikrampur (the village is now in Sreenagar Upazila of Munshiganj District) in 1950s decade when Bangladesh was part of Pakistan. The novel tells the story of his journey as a rural Bengali boy from boyhood to adolescence. The story begins when he is ten years old and ends when he is fifteen.
Author Humayun Azad dedicated this novel to his childhood rural friends and compared the novel to Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel "Pather Panchali".
Synopsis.
Jalkador is an young boy who lives in Rarhikhal village with his parents and siblings; he has one brother and one sister who are named Abju and Moyna respectively. Though his family is well-off in the village, Jalkador comes from a farming background; his father is a farmer and he is a cowboy who raises cattle who does not go to school and speaks local dialect of the Bengali language. Jalkador has a close friend named Majid who teaches him how to smoke cigarettes when Jalkador becomes a teenager.