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Aapka Bunty

आपका बंटी

by Mannu Bhandari

★★★★★ 4/5 · Poornadnyan rating

The big idea

When his parents separate and his mother remarries, young Bunty's world falls apart – a sensitive novel seen through a child's eyes.

Read it if…

Parents, and anyone interested in families and relationships.

Skip it if…

You are looking for something light-hearted.

Key ideas in 2 minutes

  1. Children feel family changes more deeply than adults realise.
  2. Everyone in a broken family is hurting in their own way.
  3. Listening to children matters.

Our review

A pioneering Hindi novel about divorce and its effect on a child, written with great sensitivity by one of Hindi's finest women writers.

Short and powerful. Many parents say it changed how they talk to their children.

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