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- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
A middle grade novel-in-verse about Samira, an eleven-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds peace and empowerment in a local surf club for girls. Samira thinks of her life as before and after: before the burning...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Winner, Book of the Year and Christina Stead Prize, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards 1994 Winner, Best First Book, Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region, Commonwealth Writers Prize 1995 Shortlisted, Age Book of the Year Award 1994 Shortlisted,...
Songs At the River’s Edge: Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Masud Alam has lived in Australia for the past 30 of his 53 years. Now his father, Abba, is dying, drifting in a haze of Alzheimer’s, and Masud has returned to Bangladesh to say goodbye and to reconnect with...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In the aftermath of Bangladesh s bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the stirrings of disillusionment. The revolutionary spirit that had filled the...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and...
The Book of Dhaka (Reading The City)
- 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...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Bangladeshi camp. A British ambassador. A Harley Street doctor. Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is used to working on stories that will take her from the bottom to the top of society – stories with a huge human cost....
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Bangladesh at a time when Islamic fundamentalism ison the rise, The Good Muslim is an epic story about faith, familyand the long shadow of war. Tahmima Anam, the prize-winning author of A Golden Age, offers a moving...
- Location(s): Bangladesh, London, New York City (NYC), Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A breathtaking debut novel from an exciting new voice in fiction – coming July 2022! Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things live successful and enviable lives in London and New York. When their...
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