Good Night, Mr. Kissinger
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939419042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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And there is James D'Costa, the exiled Bangladeshi waiter with an unlikely name, whose encounters with Henry Kissinger force a tense confrontation between past and future. Good Night, Mr. Ahmed plunges into this anarchic, overwhelming place, plucking individuals from the masses to tell stories of love and ambition, family secrets and exile. Kissinger ends in present day Dhaka, with the construction magnate Shabhaz ruminating about his dysfunctional family on the forty-first floor of the highest tower of the city-one which he himself built. And Ramkamal, author of the greatest novel never written, whose disappearance leaves behind a group of
"Vividly realized and intricately observed, Good Night, Mr. Anis Ahmed to be a writer of great promise with a telling eye for detail." Shashi Tharoor, author of The Great Indian Novel"what happens after the political foment ends, after independence is won and the extraordinary becomes the everyday? In his debut collection, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger is a poignant portrait of a city and the characters that live in the wake of great change." Tahmima Anam, author of The Good Muslim"These stories reveal K. Anis Ahmed explores the quotidian in a series of stories that begins during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and moves into modern-day Dhaka, the country’s largest city and current home to more than seven million."—The Los Angeles Review of Books. Kissinger, K
A Good New Voice Bangladeshi writer K. Anis Ahmed’s debut collection of short stories, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, held me in spite of occasional awkwardness in his language. He also gets some triumphs of syntax-bending language, as when he begins “Losing Ayesha” with this sentence: “The first time I was ever sad, I mean truly sad, the kind of sadness that wipes out all the light from the world and you’re sure that the heavy curtain that has descended all around you will never lift again, occurred when I was seven years old.” That pulled me in the way the open. sarah McCoubrey said Exceptional. I enjoyed all the stories in this collection. Funny, heartfelt, revealing.