Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat (পেপারব্যাক)

Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat is a juvenile novel with difference, mixing reality with fantasy and thereby depicts in a fascinating way the life of children who roam in the streets of Dhaka. Tokai is the generic name for these boys who sleep on park benches, sidewalks, in railway platforms; they roam the streets and pick up rags, scraps of paper etc., hoping to sell them to some dealer and thus struggle to survive in a ruthless environment. Lutfor Rahman Riton (b. 1961) in this novel gives us very interesting portrait of a ragpicker called Amin Ali who is joined by a non-human ragpicker, a pussy cat. The adventures of ragpicker Amin and ragpicker pussy cat reflect our sociopolitical milieu in a manner that is amusing as well as disturbing.