I Remember Abbu -

Humayun Azad

Amazon Crossing

2019

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-13: 9781542042420

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

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4 (Muito bom)

Um livro tão bonito com um final de cortar o coração. Uma menina tentar lembrar das memórias que viveu com o pai quando era pequena enquanto Bangladesh lutava pela sua independência contra o Paquistão. É um cheio de amor, mas que termina de um jeito muito triste.