Fiction: The state drives a poor but brilliant boy to destruction in newly-independent Bangladesh
An excerpt from ‘I See the Face’, by Shahidul Zahir, translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy.
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An excerpt from ‘I See the Face’, by Shahidul Zahir, translated from the Bengali by V Ramaswamy.
Even though there are killings and the Bangladesh Liberation War at the heart of I See the Face, it’s the psychological framework of men that Bangladeshi novelist Shahidul Zahir seems to be most interested in