READ For Bangladesh, I was planning to read Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim. But just as I finished the first few pages, I found out that it was a sequel to Anam’s first novel, A Golden Age. So I stopped reading The Good Muslim (for now), and picked up A Golden Age. The book opens with widow Rehana Haque losing … Continue reading The Booktrekker: Bangladesh
International YALit Month: I Remember Abbu
I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad, translated by Arunava Sinha, interior illustrations by Sabyasachi Mistry I Remember Abbu by Bangladeshi writer Humayun Azad is a short novel about a loving father-daughter relationship, but also a book about loss and memory. The narrator, a girl or young adult woman remembers her early childhood, and especially her … Continue reading International YALit Month: I Remember Abbu
South Asian Literature in Translation: Black Ice
Black Ice by Mahmudul Haque; translated from Bangla into English by Mahmud Rahman
South Asian Literature in Translation: Beloved Rongomala
Beloved Rongomala by Shaheen Akhtar, translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 