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...
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...
It is never clear to Elizabeth whether the mission principal’s cruel revelations of her origins is at the bottom of her mental breakdown, but in the dark loneliness of the Botswanan night, the frightened South African refugee slips in...
This is a book of innocence – of a time of enchantment in a world now gone. It is through the eyes of a young person, learning and observing life with her grandfather in the land of old Bangladesh...
It took just three weeks to turn our lives inside out, heading into unknown territory and unexperienced temperatures. And why drag our family 6000 miles to Africa? Well, it was warm, hardly ever rained and the only other choice...
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