FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

Spanning nearly three decades and moving back and forth between Communist China and the United States, Linda Rui Feng’s debut novel, Swimming Back to Trout River (Simon & Schuster, 2021), follows a family fractured by physical and emotional distance. 

A brilliant conversation about literature, characters, and The Book Thief

A week or two ago, I came across an article by Hassan Munhamanna on Daily Star Books in which he talked about his struggles with reading books in their entirety.

Renowned writer Kazi Anwar Hossain has passed away. He breathed his last at 4:40 pm today.

In a live YouTube broadcast, University Press Limited (UPL) launched their book, An Internal Matter: The U.S., Grassroots Activism and the Creation of Bangladesh, written by Samuel Jaffe, at 7 PM on Saturday, January 15, 2022.

I’m feeling a certain disenchantment.

The best part of my childhood was during the late fifties, attending Dacca Cantonment Primary School at Ayub Line.

I love it when Paulo Coelho’s books start with a challenge or a quest, and The Archer (Penguin Random House, 2020), accordingly, does not fail to open with an intriguing pursuit.  Upon reading the prologue, I thought I was in for a good read; it was rich and humorous, and in line with the writer’s usual mystical tone.

Haruki Murakami is perhaps one of the most celebrated and well known writers of not only Japan but all of contemporary literature. His writing is humorous, hypnotic,

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My baby boy snatches my empty tea mug from me and starts licking it. He was given the last few drops of tea from the mug and now he wants more. He puts his hand inside the mug, gets the boiled tea dust into his fist, inserts them in his mouth and starts chewing furiously.

Few authors would attempt a task as daunting as borrowing a seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote from Spanish to English and setting it up on twenty-first-century United States. Given his dexterity with fabulism and experimental fiction, Salman Rushdie accepts the task with aplomb.

Certain identities can strip people of their right to identify as humans. These people find their existence undesired, their rights, freedom, choices unguarded.

I struggle to finish books. Well, one can even say I struggle to read, if you think a good reader is someone who finishes the books they pick up.

“Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart”, reads the stark opening line in Michelle Zauner’s 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart (Knopf), starting the

From finding the right props to setting up a shoot, the many ways of curating an interesting Instagram profile can be easier than it appears to be. 

The nearly two-hour-long special felt like being splashed in the face with a potion that induces nostalgia.

I was then working as a military observer in Sarajevo, and visiting Zagreb for some official purpose. Jean Marc, one of my French colleagues

Do the smooth muscles of narrative hold a deceptive appeal? Does the temporality of a story do more harm than good? One of the most intriguing stories in Aesop’s Fables, seems to think so – a fascinating story that is a good example of an anti-story!

As we near the year’s end, the Star Books Team asks the different sections of The Daily Star about the most interesting books that they would recommend to their readers this year.