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Book, 2009
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Book, 2009
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The experiences of a woman drawn into the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence illuminate the conflict's wider resonances in Anam's impressive debut, the first installment in a proposed trilogy. Rehana Haque is a widow and university student in Dhaka with two children, 17-year-old daughter Maya and 19-year-old son Soheil. As she follows the daily patterns of domesticity -- cooking, visiting the cemetery, marking religious holidays -- she is only dimly aware of the growing political unrest until Pakistani tanks arrive and the fighting begins.
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