Jarin Tasneem Shoilee

Tahmima Anam, the Bangladesh-born British writer, is known at home and abroad for her spontaneous and vivid writing style. She is widely distinguished as a novelist and columnist with a profound awareness of her native and international culture.

“Akalir Station er Jibon” (“Akali’s life at the Station”) depicts the struggling life of a working- class woman called Akali, who earns her livelihood by prostitution at Kamalapur Rail Station.

It was not very late when he saw her inside the cafe.