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Starred Review on April 15, 2018 | Fiction
In 1970, the Bhola cyclone, one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded, made landfall in India and Pakistan off the Bay of Bengal, killing approximately 500,000 people within just a few days. This event is ground zero for Anwar's poignant, warmhearted, multigenerational debut novel. The storm destroys an impoverished fishing village in Chittagong, East Pakistan (Bangladesh), orphans young Pakistani Shahrya...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
