मायाजाल

Mayajaal proceeds without haste and without spectacle. Its disturbance is of a quieter order: an ordinary fact recalled differently, a certainty repeated until it acquires doubt, a familiar world whose proportions appear to have shifted by no more than a degree.

The novel's distinction lies in its refusal to announce its mysteries. It permits memory, suggestion and fear to work upon one another until explanation itself becomes unstable. What unsettles is not the arrival of the extraordinary, but the gradual loss of confidence in the ordinary.

There is considerable restraint in this method. The book asks the reader neither to solve a puzzle nor to accept an illusion, but to remain for a while in the difficult interval between what is seen, what is remembered and what is believed.