Ismail Darbesh <br/><br/>
TALASHNAMA : Quest 

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 - Haryana  Harper Collins  2024/01/01 
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<br/><br/> Set in Sadnahati, a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal, Talashnama is the story of Riziya, an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past....<br/><br/>Hounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque - an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers. Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation.....<br/><br/>Ismail Darbeshs debut novel, Talashnama, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V. Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in todays India.. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789354898952 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Current Books, Convent Junction,Market Road,Cochin  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / ISM/TA