মেজদিদি
By শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Cover: Kalighat Painting (19th century), black ink, colour and graphite on paper by Anonymous Kalighat artist, Calcutta (active 19th century) · Wikimedia Commons (Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.124) · Public domain (anonymous 19th-century work; CC0 from the museum)
Kesto, a boy of fourteen left an orphan by his mother's death, is sent to live in the well-off house of his half-sister, where he is overworked and beaten and finds one person to be kind to him, the 'middle sister' of the title. Sarat Chandra's novella of 1915 is a story of a household and of a child's loyalty to a woman who is not his mother.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.