The Worst of Times
Oct 02, 2021
2 minutes
—Latha Anantharaman
khtaruzzaman Elias’s 1996 novel Khwabnama, newly translated into English, is set in the turbulent years of Independence, when the seeds of Pakistan are just ripening. In a Bengali village haunted by ghosts, fishermen and farmers can count on nothing and cling to superstition. Even the land does
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