num_pages: 256
description: A quarter century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangladesh Mukti a researcher comes into Mariam's life calling up memories that continue to haunt her. She remembers the wetlands with their mystery and darkness across which her young brother Montuand she fled to escape the violence. She remembers the day her brother walked away never to be seen again lost to the war which claimed many ambitious idealistic patriotic young men swallowing them up before they even knew the meaning of war. Shaheen Akhtar's mesmerizing and moving novel is set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh war of liberation and in her skilful handsthe war becomes a way to explore the violence done to womenand their courage their tenderness their heartbreak and betrayal and their search for love. Akhtar's is one of the younger voices to explore this hitherto hidden dimension of the history of Bangladesh. Talaash was awarded the Prothom Alo Literary Prize in 2004.
language: Bengali
title: তালাশ
publisher: Mowla Brothers, Dhaka