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Published in The Daily Star on 10 April 2010 Seasonal Adjustments traces a man’s return to his village in Bangladesh after an 18-year absence. Adib Khan’s novel, however, is not in the tradition of expats who return with a willingness to embrace their native land after years of romanticising it. The central character, 43-year-old Iqbal […]

Published in The Daily Star on 6 March 2010 The debut novel by social psychologist Shazia Omar is a brave depiction of drug addiction in Bangladesh. She approaches the taboo subject with all the rigour you would expect of someone who has spent a month in a rehab centre studying dependence. Omar seemingly omits nothing from […]

Published in The Daily Star  on January 23 2010 The third novel by Dhaka-born Monica Ali is a superbly written, behind-the-scenes account of a commercial kitchen in London. It is no less an achievement than her best-selling debut novel Brick Lane, which portrayed a young Bangladeshi woman adjusting to a new life with a doddering […]