Khwabnama - Akhteruzzaman Elias Firaq during the mid-nineteenth century

during the mid-nineteenth century

AUTHOR : Usha Priyamvada         TRANSLATED BY:  Daisy Rockwell

told without sentiment but with a great deal of compassion

Detailing the life of a national icon

Khwabnama - Akhteruzzaman Elias Firaq during the mid-nineteenth centuryAUTHOR : Akhteruzzaman Elias TRANSLATED BY: Arunava Sinha GENRE : TRANSLATION QUICK TAKE: Khwabnama is a rare work of magic realism from Bangladesh which stylistically reads like a surrealistic work from Latin America or Eastern Europe but depicts the world of South Asia. It depicts the socio political scene in rural pre partition Bangladesh SYNOPSIS: You keep harvesting other peoples crops, arent you ever going to harvest your own?Bengal in the 1940