Bengal Hound

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A story full of gravity and urgency. -Ha Jin author of <em>A Song Everlasting</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>A love story unravels in the tumultuous years leading up to the war for Bangladeshi Independence revealing</em></strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em> the irreconcilable fissures of land and life.</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A city is hellbent on revolution. Passionate and impetuous Shelley Majumder is a university student at a time of political discord in Dhaka in the late 1960s. Frustrated by the oppression of West Pakistani rulers the Bengali people are rising up taking Shelley with them. As he is forced to navigate the chaos of an uprising where his every choice and action weighs heavy with consequence Shelley's life is thrown further into disarray when he elopes with his childhood sweetheart Roxana a Muslim girl from his village sparking a chain of events reflecting the turbulent relationship between Hindus and Muslims that quickly spins out of control. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At its very core a story of love and loss </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bengal Hound </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>traces the turbulent years of East Pakistan that led to a mass revolution eventually culminating in the creation of Bangladesh. Rahad Abir conjures up characters haunted by memory and trauma in a society reeling from the pains of the Partition of British India. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A powerful exploration of the dynamics of nationalism family religion and gender relations </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Bengal Hound</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>reveals </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>how the fracturing and making of countries leave indelible marks on its people.</span></p><p><br></p>