Fiction

摘要

This second novel in a planned trilogy, alternating between 1972 and 1984, focuses on the aftermath of the 1971 war for Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan. Like the first book, A Golden Age, which was set during the war, this one follows the Haque family. But now the focus is on daughter Maya instead of her mother. Maya and her brother, Sohail, reacted to the war's brutality in different ways, and it is Sohail's immersion in Islam-and his rejection of all that he once held dear-that creates a rift with his sister.