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020			_a9780143465553
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bARE/PH
100			_aArefin, Mashrur
245			_aPHANTOMS OF AUGUST
250			_a1
260			_aHaryana _bVintage - Penguin Random House _c2024
300			_g478
500			_aOriginally 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.
650			_aBengali Fiction
650			_aNovel
650			_aFiction
700			_aArunava Sinha (tr.)
942			_cLEN
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999			_c193668 _d193668