num_pages: 320
description: At that time there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into trouble for singing a song. My grandfather hid all his Bengali poetry in the cellar.I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No not everyone came out of the war alive.One familys life and a nation  Bangladesh  being created through conversation sacrifice songs bonds blood bravery and jokes. Narrated by Philip Henshers husband Zaved Scenes from Early Life is in part a memoir part fiction and part a history of one of the most savage of twentieth-century civil wars. Heartbreaking funny and gripping it is a unique novel by one of our finest writers.
language: English
title: Scenes from Early Life
publisher: Fourth Estate