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A Golden Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
In this striking debut novel, set in the nineteen-seventies, a young widow and her children become caught up in Bangladesh's war for independence. Rehana exists on the edge of things: a native of Calcutta, she was resettled in Dhaka by her husband and speaks Urdu, the language of West Pakistan, as fluently as Bengali, the language of restive East Pakistan--soon to be Bangladesh. Her children, though, are fervent patriots, joining in ...
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