I was in class 6 when I first read this book. Since then I have read it so many times. This is a book that I’ll remember for life. It calms me down whenever I face troubles. Recently I read it again and it reminded me of my childhood. I never thought a book make me feel nostalgic.
This classic novel caught my imagination. The forests, each & every characters, the time, the emotions, everything come alive in this novel. It is written from incidents and characters from the author's real-life experiences.
Bibhutibhushan paints beautiful images of the forest at night in moonlight, his rides through the woods on the horseback, and potraits the time spent with men and women, poor in wealth but rich in morality. A watchman who dreams of owning an iron bowl, a royal ancestor with only a handful of cattle to graze, a princess sad for her broken looking glass, a moneylender too shy to ask his debtors to pay up, a mythical god who saves buffaloes from falling into traps at night - Aranyak is almost magical and most beautiful travelogue ever written in Bengali vernacular.
I highly recommend to read this book. Otherwise, you will miss one of the fascinating and magical novel of all time in Bengali vernacular.