The storm : a novel / Arif Anwar.
Inspired by the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, in which half a million people perished overnight, this seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle fifty years of Bangladeshi history. The structure of this riveting novel mimics the storm itself - building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes as it explores the many ways in which families love, betray, honour, and sacrifice for one another. Shahryar, a recent Ph.D. graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. As father and daughter spend their last remaining weeks together, Shahryar tells Anna the history of his country, beginning in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his Hindu wife, who converted to Islam out of love for him, are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. Their story intersects with those of a Japanese fighter pilot, a British female doctor stationed in Burma during World War II, a Buddhist monk originally from Austria, and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leave everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India." -- Publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443454216 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 348 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Bangladesh > Fiction. Fathers and daughters > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Storytelling > Fiction. Cyclones > Fiction. Natural disasters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. > gsafd Literary fiction. > local Canaidan ficiton. > local |
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