দেনা-পাওনা
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Cover: Kali (19th century), Kalighat painting by Anonymous Kalighat painter, Calcutta · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (19th-century work by an unknown artist; Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0)
Jibananda, the hard landlord of Chandigarh, a village that grew up around an old temple of Chandi on the Barui river, and Shorashi, a woman of the temple's circle who has never been tamed by his house, are two of the strongest figures of Sarat Chandra's 1923 novel. The title means 'debts and dues', and the book keeps an account of what each person owes the others.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.