The storm /
"Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a villa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
2018.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
| Series: | Thorndike Press large print basic
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| Summary: | "Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese pilot, a British doctor stationed in Burma during World War II, and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leaves everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India. Inspired by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which half a million-people perished overnight, the structure of this riveting novel mimics the storm itself"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 465 pages (large print) : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical reference (page 462). |
| ISBN: | 9781432857899 (large print) (hardcover) 1432857894 (large print) (hardcover) |