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The Mercenary (Paperback)
Moinul Ahsan Saber; Translated by Shabnam Nadiya
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This gripping novel brilliantly straddles the divide between
thrillers and literature. Moinul Ahsan Saber here tells the story
of Kobej Lethel, a ruthless soldier of fortune employed by a
corrupt village chief. Lethel has never had a problem with the job
before: he gets an assignment and handles it, even if that entails
violence. But during Bangladesh's War of Independence, the chief
sides with the Pakistani army as it carries out unspeakable
atrocities. Suddenly, Lethel can no longer accept his role--he
refuses, and rebels. But the transformation proves temporary: by
the end of the war, he's back to his old ways, fighting for nothing
more than a paycheck, on nothing more than an order. A powerful
novel of war, history, and the deadly draw of violence, The
Mercenary is an unforgettable look into the mind of a man who
cannot escape the killing that has become his occupation.
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world
- noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with
sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the
most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly
call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys,
gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these
streets, often with Dhaka's famous rickshaws ferrying them to and
fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka
itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk
culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's
great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a
nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in
particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been
translated).
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