Bøger af Nadeem Zaman

'We inherit the lineage we're all born into, with its history and its contradictions, with the very beautiful and the very ugly, neither of which we can have a hand in being able to change.'The family of Nisar Chowdhury moves from Dhaka to Chicago when he is just thirteen, and he grows up feeling estranged from both lands. Thirty years on, he returns to the city of his birth, only to find it changed beyond recognition. Rekindling old relationships and trying to get to grips with his father's decision to sell off their remaining properties in the city, Nisar must navigate the labyrinth of a society that has moved on without him. The Inheritors is a vivid portrait of a city giddy with the march of change.

Stories about a group of people who belong to a social class of their own: educated, trusted, upper level employees who are confidantes but still servants and all of the tensions that createsSpeaks to issues of class and class struggle, an important topic in today's news cycleOriginal characters with personality, like Downton Abbey set in Dhaka todayAuthor tour: readings at bookstores in Louisville and Chicago Former bookseller at Carmichael's in Louisville, KY