Humayun Azad (Livres)

Humayun Azad Livres

Humayun Azad était un auteur et un érudit bangladais connu pour ses écrits provocateurs sur des questions sociales et politiques. Initialement axé sur la linguistique, il s'est tourné vers des essais et des romans, critiquant vivement l'extrémisme religieux et l'injustice. Ses œuvres, caractérisées par un style pénétrant et une diction distinctive, exploraient souvent des thèmes tels que le féminisme et la résistance contre la dictature militaire. Azad a été reconnu pour sa position intransigeante et sa voix littéraire unique, abordant sans crainte des sujets controversés.

I Remember Abbu

144pages
6 heures de lecture

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A touching story of war, family, innocence, and memory from one of the top Bengali writers of all time. For the first time translated into English. Bangladesh, 1971: the war of independence from Pakistan has torn through peaceful villages and turned life upside down. In the midst of war, one young girl holds on as she discovers the world's unpredictability. During her father's prolonged absence, she reminisces about the essence of her abbu, an esteemed professor, loving community leader, and now unexpected warrior. She is moved by his quiet determination to preserve Bengali language and culture in a struggle for autonomy. In his diaries, her abbu describes the painful decisions he must make because of the threat of war, from embracing the brutality of taking up arms to the struggle of moving his family from the embattled city of Dhaka. Amid the tragedy is the unbroken bond between a father and daughter, which makes this powerful and historically faithful portrait of a family surviving the worst in the fight for independence all the more stirring.