num_pages: 320
description: In the tradition of Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistrys A Fine Balance a sweeping historical novel that seamlessly interweaves five love stories spanning sixty years of Bangladeshi history.Time is running out for Shahryar. His work visa has expired and he may soon be forced out of the United States and back to his home country of Bangladesh. Clinging to the remaining weeks he has left with his young American daughter Shar reflects upon his familys history beginning in a village on the Bay of Bengal where a poor fisherman Jamir and his wife Honufa prepare to face a storm of historic proportions.Spilling across tense crucial moments in history Jamir and Honufas story intersects with other lives like that of Ichiro a Japanese pilot fighting in a war he does not understand; Claire a British doctor in danger during the anti-colonialist Burmese rebellions; and Rahim and Zahira a privileged couple in Calcutta uprooted to East Pakistan by the Partition of India.With a narrative sweep mirroring the storms devastating pathleading to the eyes calamitous landingThe Storm explores hope loss sacrifice and the many ways in which families honor betray and ultimately love one another.
language: English
title: The Storm
publisher: Atria Books