02060nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801420007608200150021810000280023324500380026126000350029930000190033436500080035352012000036165000230156165000120158465000260159670000240162294200090164699900170165595201460167220241204150924.0241204b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780670087211  a: International Book Distrubutorsb: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.c: 120961d: 21/11/2024  a954.02 ELI  a Elias, Akhtaruzzaman.   aKhwabnamac/ Akhtaruzzaman Elias.  aGurugram b: Penguin c, 2021.  a545p.c: 22cm.  b489  aBengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges into knee-deep mud. This is Tamiz's father, the man in possession of Khwabnama.

At first glance, Khwabnama is the tale of a harmless young farmhand who becomes a sharecropper and dreams of a future that has everything to do with the land that he cultivates and the soil that he tills. The fabric of his dreams, though, have as much to do with the history of
the land as its future, and as much to do with memories as with hope.

In this magnum opus, which documents the Tebhaga movement, wherein peasants demanded two-thirds of the harvest they produced on the land owned by zamindars, Akhtaruzzaman Elias has created an extraordinary tale of magical realism, blending memory with reality, legend with history and the struggle of marginalized people with the stories of their ancestors.

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