num_pages: 400
description: It is New Year's Eve 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride Munira to seek his fortune in England. His cousin and only friend Rofikul introduces Hashim to life in Manchester - including Rofikul's girlfriend Helen. When Munira arrives the group must learn what it is to be a family.Over the next twenty years they make their way in the new country - putting down roots and building a home. But when war breaks out in East Pakistan the struggle for liberation and the emergence of Bangladesh raises questions about identity belonging and loyalty.Hashim &amp; Family is a story of family ties of migration and of a connection to home and is the debut of an extraordinary new talent.
language: English
title: Hashim & Family
publisher: John Murray Press