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Scenes from Early Life (Paperback)
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"Beautifully packed with detail . . . Does for Bangladesh what
Rushdie did for India." --"The Sunday Times
"From the Man Booker-short-listed author of "The Northern
Clemency," a family and a nation--Bangladesh--are forged through
storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery,
and sacrifice.
In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly
Bengali family in eastern Pakistan. Months later the country splits
in two in what will become one of the most ferocious
twentieth-century civil wars. Saadi tells the story of his
childhood and of the ingenious ways his family survived the
violence and conflicts: from his aunts stuffing him with sweets to
stop marauding soldiers from hearing him cry, to street games based
on American television shows; from the basement compartment his
grandfather built to hide his treasured books, pictures, and music
until after the war, to the daily gossip about each and every one
of the relatives, servants, and neighbors. "Scenes from Early Life
"is a beautifully detailed novel of profound empathy--an attempt to
capture the collective memory of a family and a country.
At once heartbreaking and surprisingly funny, "Scenes from Early
Life "is based on the life of Philip Hensher's husband, and as such
it is at once a memoir, a novel, and a history. As this remarkable
writer brings the past to life, we come to feel, vividly and
viscerally, that Saadi's family--and its struggles and
triumphs--are our own.
General
Imprint: |
Farrar Straus Giroux
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2014 |
First published: |
2014 |
Authors: |
Philip Hensher
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Dimensions: |
222 x 146 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-86547-805-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-86547-805-8 |
Barcode: |
9780865478053 |
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