Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense – Two Novellas - Softcover

Haq, Syed Shamsul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857425013 ISBN 13: 9780857425010

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2018

Synopsis

Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wake of the Pakistani army's attacks on Bengali people. Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, two novellas by Bangladeshi writer Syed Shamsul Haq, bear bleak witness to the mindless violence and death of that period. Blue Venom tells of a middle-aged middle manager who is arrested and taken to a cell, where he is slowly tortured to death for being a namesake of a rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Forbidden Incense, meanwhile, tells of a woman's return to her paternal village after her husband was taken by the army. In the village, she meets a boy with a Muslim name whose entire family has been killed; as they attempt together to gather and bury scattered corpses, they, too, are caught by the killers.

About this title

Review:

"Syed Shamsul Haq is one of the best writers of his generation. He communicates emotion with astonishing proficiency of language and depth of perception."--Abdul Mannan Syed, author of Shotter Moto Badmas

About the Author:

Syed Shamsul Haq is a Bangladeshi poet and writer. Saugata Ghosh works as an analytics professional and a writer and translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0857425013
• ISBN 13: 9780857425010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128