Pather Panchali portrays the life and struggle of the Roy family in their ancestral village in Bengal. It is a literary masterpiece and is considered one of the best Bengali novels ever written. The novel very vividly and beautifully portrays the life of a poor family seen through the eyes of Apu and Durga, the two young children of the family. The author writes about Apu and Durga and their friends with a natural realism and innocence. This book was later adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.