"1900 - 1999" . . . . . . "The middleman" . . . . . "Jana-aranya" . . . . . . "Life of an ordinary man, striving to survive in a big city like Calcutta." . . . "Le ciel, la terre, l'enfer" . . . "Fiction" . . . . . "\"Unable to find a job despite his qualifications, Somnath decides to go into the order supply business as a middleman. His ambition drives him to prostitute an innocent girl for a contract that will secure the future of Somnath Enterprises. As Somnath grows from an idealistic young man into a corrupt businessman, the novel becomes a terrifying portrait of the price the city extracts from its youth. Sankar s The Middleman is the moving story of a man torn between who he is and what he wants to be.\"--" . . "Jana-araṇya" . "Jana Aranya" . "Novel·les" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Kolkata (India)" . .