साहित्य अकादमी से पुरस्कृत साहित्यकार अनामिका का ये पहला उपन्यास है। आपातकाल की पृष्ठभूमि में ये उपन्यास लिखा गया और पहले “पर कौन सुनेगा” के नाम से प्रकाशित किया गया। 2019 में इसे लालटेन बाजार के नाम से प्रकाशित किया गया। 109 पेजों की इस किताब का मूल्य है 160 रुपए जो छूट के साथ अमेजन पर उपलब्ध है।
Laltain Bazaar is Meera’s neighbourhood where she grows up. The market is filled with working girls, and Meera’s mother is one of them. While Meera may have been born there, she and her mother want to escape this reality to lead a normal life. Written in the backdrop of the emergency in 1977, the novel is a narrative of Meera’s ill-treatment at the hands of her in-laws and her returning back to her mother’s home. Her circumstances do not crack Meera, and she ultimately decides that she will build up her own world. As touching as the story is by writer Anamika, it is a personal, discreet account of a woman in our society. The novel was first published in 1983 under the title Par Kaun Sunega. By popular demand, the novel has now been republished under the name Latain Bazaar.