(This list of novels is hardly exhaustive; it includes the names of only those that are easily recalled.) A child narrator is a very powerful narrative tool of social critique and dramatic irony. Also Read | We should not be bullied by ‘literary trends’: Sumana RoyIn Lopa Ghosh’s novel, Age of Mondays, Vera Narois, aged 10 and the only child of Imon and Danish, narrates the events unfolding around her. Ghosh seems to be at ease while constructing the child’s voice positioned in a rather chaotic domesticity. Nuanced presentation of social diversityAlthough narrated by Vera, the magic realist, postmodern chunks of the novel never quite acquire the fecund fullness of fanciful imagining.