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Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the "must reads" of Indian literature. Fireflies in the Mist is Hyder's capstone to her astonishing River of Fire, which was hailed by The New York Review of Books as "magisterial with a technical resourcefulness rarely seen before in Urdu fiction." Fireflies follows the creation of modern day Bangladesh — from Indian province, to Partition, to the emergence of statehood — as told through the impassioned voice of Deepali Sarkar and others around her who live through the turbulence. Hyder perceptively and majestically follows the trajectory of Sarkar's life — from her secluded upbringing in Dhaka to becoming a socialist rebel and to her ultimate transformation as a diasporic Bengali cosmopolitan —
in the way that many of yesterday's revolutionaries are slowly but surely ensnared within a net of class and luxury dangled in front of them.
Translated from Urdu.
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Jean Boudreau
reviewed Fireflies in the Mist on April 01, 2020
Fireflies in the Mist
This was a wonderful book. Shockingly little known. I started off reading it as a bit of a joke (hindustani lit about the bengalis?) but the loving intimacy with which hyder depicts our people, with all our differences and divergences and similarities, and the way she captures the overarching sense of loss that has grasped the east bengali in the decades following partition, have truly won me over.
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