''Koni'' is a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

written by

Moti Nandi Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Patr ...

Plot

One day Khitish Sinha saw a young girl named Koni swimming in the river. Sinha was an experienced swimming coach so he decided to train Koni for a swimming competition. Koni was not financially stable enough to manage coaching fees. In fact, her elder brother was a tuberculosis patient, earning only Rs.150 a month - the sole earner of a seven-member family. However, when he dies, the family falls into a very grave financial crisis. Then Sinha decided to give Koni a small job in his wife's trailer shop named Prajapati. Khitish takes complete responsibility for Koni's training, Koni worked hard and made it into the Bengal national swimming team. She was not given chance to compete in any events until a team member was injured. After getting the opportunity, Koni won the swimming competition for the Bengal team.

Adaptations

The novel was adapted into the movie '' Kony'' in 1984.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koni Bengali-language novels