This book is an evaluation of the creativity and ideology of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, a brilliant novelist and short story writer of Bangladesh. Elias died at the unripe age of 54 (1943-97) and wrote only two novels – Chilekothar Sepai (sepoy of the attic) and Khowabnama (dream-elegy). But these two texts and his short stories, not many in number, have turned him into an icon, remembered and revered.