Intended Audience
Join in on the online launch of Lecturer of English Nadeem Zaman's acclaimed novel, The Inheritors. We'll be joined by the fêted writer and journalist Nadia Kabir Barb for a conversation around the book.
About the Book
‘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.
About the Author
Nadeem Zaman is the author of the novels In the Time of the Others, a nominee for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Culture Shocks, and a collection of stories Up in the Main House and Other Stories. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals around the world. Born in Dhaka, he lives in Maryland where he teaches in the English Department at St Mary’s College of Maryland.
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