Fireflies in the Mist

Fireflies in the Mist
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One womanâ€™s journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation.
Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the â€œmust readsâ€ of Indian literature. Fireflies in the Mist is Hyderâ€™s capstone to her astonishing River of Fire, which was hailed by The New York Review of Books as â€œmagisterial with a technical resourcefulness rarely seen before in Urdu fiction.â€ Fireflies follows the creation of modern day Bangladesh â€• from Indian province, to Partition, to the emergence of statehood â€• as told through the impassioned voice of Deepali Sarkar and others around her who live through the turbulence. Hyder perceptively and majestically follows the trajectory of Sarkarâ€™s life â€• from her secluded upbringing in Dhaka to becoming a socialist rebel and to her ultimate transformation as a diasporic Bengali cosmopolitan â€• in the way that many of yesterdayâ€™s revolutionaries are slowly but surely ensnared within a net of class and luxury dangled in front of them.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811218658
ReleaseDate 2010-11-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811218658

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