by
Philip Hensher
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From the Man Booker–short-listed author of The Northern Clemency, a family and a nation—Bangladesh—are forged through storytelling, conversation, jokes, feuds, blood, songs, bravery, and sacrifice
In late 1970 a boy named Saadi is born into a large, defiantly Bengali family in eastern Pakistan....