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A Harvest of Thorns

A Harvest of Thorns
  • Author(s): Corban Addison
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka, Malaysia (Malaya), Virginia, Washington DC
  • Era(s): Modern

A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of...

Scenes from Early Life

Scenes from Early Life
  • Author(s): Philip Hensher
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, Dhaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

One family’s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, ‘Scenes from Early Life’ is a heartbreaking,...

Carnivore

Carnivore
  • Author(s): K Anis Ahmed
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Dhaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2008 onwards)

In New York’s high-end restaurant scene one chef will do anything, and cook anything, to come out on top. Kash owes a lot of money. His restaurant, specialising in exotic meats and catering to New York’s elite, was doing...

The Book of Dhaka (Reading The City)

The Book of Dhaka (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Arunava Sinha, Pushpita Alam
  • Location(s): Dhaka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world – noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums – but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful...

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