PHANTOMS OF AUGUST
Language: English Publication details: Haryana Vintage - Penguin Random House 2024Edition: 1Description: 478ISBN:- 9780143465553
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Originally published in Bengali as "August Abchaya" in 2019. Translated into English by Arunava Sinha.
An unnamed narrator takes it upon himself to discover the truth behind the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman—who led Bangladesh’s independence movement from Pakistan, which was achieved in 1971—and his entire family. With literary greats for company, the narrator negotiates his complicated personal life and his philosophical and literary musings even as he locates a gun to shoot the assassins who are still alive. Hallucinatory, flitting between reality and dreams, and traversing the length and breadth of Dhaka, this is a fever dream of a novel—an individual’s quest while navigating the scarred and traumatized mind of a nation.
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