PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781847679765
- Categories [2022], Asian Literature, BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, WBD
- Author(s) Tahmima Anam
- Publisher Canongate Books
- Pages 336
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 12.9cm x 2.0cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.23 kg
product description
One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.