I didn’t know much about Bangladesh before I read this novel. There were scattered images in my head of children running from flooding, poverty, mud, cloth serving as clothing… deposited but not processed in memory from television news programmes I presume I watched all those years ago. When Bangladesh was finally granted independence in 1971, [...]
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A Golden Age – a book review
Posted in Books, tagged 1971, A Golden Age, Bangladesh, independence, Pakistan, Rehana, Tahmima Anan on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »