![]() Sohail, who has always been a pacifist, joins the resistance fighters. Then civil war breaks out and her children sweep Rehana into political events. ![]() Ten years later, Rehana lives contentedly with her son Sohail and daughter Maya, both politically active students at the local university. With her once wealthy Muslim family, she was forced to leave Calcutta for Karachi during Partition after an arranged marriage she moved to Dhaka with her husband when her husband died, she temporarily lost her children to her wealthy brother-in-law back in Karachi, until she found the financial means-how and where is her shameful secret-to bring them back a year later. The widow Rehana has remade her life more than once. ![]() ![]() This remarkably moving and assured debut, the first in a planned trilogy, tells the story of Bangladesh’s 1971 war for independence through the eyes of a widow who will do anything to ensure her children’s survival. ![]()
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