I Remember Abbu

De: Humayun Azad, Arunava Sinha - translator

Narrado por: Deepti Gupta

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.

©2019 Humayun Azad (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Arunava Sinha.

Review

Touching story written like poetry. Well performed.8 more words required now only 3 more.