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- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1700 to 2000
Karim and Shapla are a teenage boy and girl on the verge of adulthood, flirting around the edges of a romance in an idyllic village of rural Bangladesh. The chains of rusted customs hold them back from passion, but...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): before and after 1971
Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the must reads of Indian literature. Fireflies in the Mist is Hyder s capstone to her astonishing River of Fire, which was hailed by The New...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1971
One war often merges into another. One lonely journey subsumes the anger of a million footsteps. When Safia Begum walked out of the New Eskaton mansion in the middle of the night with her young son, to protest her...
- Location(s): Bangladesh, India, Italy, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
He’s determined to get away with the ultimate crime. Even if it kills him. Daniel Sawyer is at his lowest point. He’s lost his job after his fiancée has left him. His future looks bleak. Until London crime lord...
Lands of Belonging: A History of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain
- Location(s): India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1900s onwards
Publishing for the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India in August 2022, this book is a unique exploration of the rich and complicated history of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Britain. There are many ways of telling the same...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Hot-shot 29-year-old investment banker Max Turner is handsome, wealthy and at the top of his game. But he is dogged by an overwhelming feeling of guilt and shame. What happened to the bright-eyed graduate determined to make the world...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
This groundbreaking book throws open a window on a world unknown to most Westerners. Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years — from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen — in...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The present and past
Red and Green Oil on Water is the story of Bangladesh – the story of her heritage. It is the story of a nation cut from swathes of people, young and old, past and present, future…and not yet imagined....
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): modern
In a small village somewhere in rural Bangladesh an old man starts behaving in bizarre ways. Rashed, an undergraduate in Dacca, comes under police suspicion: presumed guilty of murder. A thousand-year-old book goes missing from a house in Shantinagar...
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