Description
In this sweeping, beautifully wrought novel, an elderly man named Shaban looks back on a lifetime spent in the bleak, claustrophobic city of Basti, where ordinary days are shadowed by political upheaval and personal loss. Spanning decades—from the early 1970s into the era surrounding the Bangladesh war—the story follows lives shaped by ideology, education, and the slow corrosion of hope. Through shifting perspectives and richly observed detail, the book examines how violence and historical forces seep into private relationships, turning memory into both refuge and indictment. With Intizar Husain’s distinctive, lyrical realism and inventive narrative craft, this is a profound reckoning with a nation’s turbulence, ambition, and the human cost of change.
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paperback
Iletisim Yayinevi
Published Nov 3, 2017
244 pages
ISBN: 9789750521744
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
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