That didn’t have a lot about the exact historical events of the Rhodesian War, but I still loved it, so something else must be wrong. The Pak Sena gunned down Shahid Minar, University halls and Madhuda’s canteen, murdered eminent academics and several innocent citizens (Ref. I need a novel, or at least a memoir, a personal story that I can feel along with, to absorb even the simplest information about past events.

Mujib was prevented from taking office by President General Yahya Khan, of West Pakistan, who along with many of his fellow Punjabis and Pathans held the Bengalis in low regard.

She is a single mother; her children are in their late teens and are part of the struggle for independence. Rehana finds her nationalism within her own experiences and those she loves that have brought the idea of the nation of Bangladesh to hold significance for her. My Bangladeshi friend in our book group was bothered by what she saw as a lot of inaccuracies about the history and culture. This book must have put it on people's radar, and maybe inspired them to get to know about our nation a little better.

As she recited the pickle recipe to herself, Rehana wondered what her sisters would make of her at this very moment. We then went on to Kathmandu, where we came upon a human chain dredging a river looking for bodies, after a busy but rickety wooden bridge collapsed.Taste and fragrance and memory merge in word-pictures of the places Rehana has known: the smell of salt in the Karachi streets and the burned taste of kababs on Clifton Beach; the sweet Dhaka air in a garden filled with jasmine or ripening mangoes; and the heavy first drops of the monsoon rain that a child curves his face up to catch on his tongue.