Abu Zubair's Blog
January 26, 2012
Winner Sharp Writ 2011 Book Award
You can view the virtual ceremony on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFDq0...
August 25, 2011
The Silent and the Lost Podcast #2: The Riaspora
In the "Silent and the Lost," Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of Bangladesh, is adopted by the McKensies who lost Frank, their only son, in Vietnam. Alex's search takes us into the boiling cauldron of clashes in East Pakistan in 1971. There, through the eyes of newlyweds, Nahar and Rafique, we are immersed into the revolution that created Bangladesh.
My novel is divided into three books, the first a prologue, "The Sinuous Path," the second, "1971," and the third, "Journey into the Heart," where Alex Salim McKensie returns to the place of his birth, Bangladesh.
In today's podcast, I will be reading an excerpt from the beginning of the chapter, "The Riaspora," pages 373 through 375 in my novel, from the third book, "Journey into the Heart."
This chapter, "The Riaspora," a term I coined is the reverse Diaspora, the return of a people to their origin.
The setting is Zia International Airport, Dhaka, September 1997.
Alex has just travelled across the Pacific from Los Angeles via Singapore to Dhaka and is about to get off the Singapore Airlines Airbus and step for the first time on the soil of Bangladesh where he was born a war baby in 1972 and adopted from at four months by the McKensies of Brentwood.
In book three, the epilogue of "The Silent and the Lost." Alex Salim McKensie now married to an Indian American Sangeeta Rai decides to speed like 'the trajectory of an arrow twenty five years back into the circumstances of his birth."
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August 24, 2011
The Silent and the Lost Podcast
In the "Silent and the Lost," Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of Bangladesh, is adopted by the McKensies who lost Frank, their only son, in Vietnam. Alex's search takes us into the boiling cauldron of clashes in East Pakistan in 1971. There, through the eyes of newlyweds, Nahar and Rafique, we are immersed into the revolution that created Bangladesh.
In today's podcast, I will be reading an excerpt from the end of the chapter, "The Mukti Bahini," pages 177 through 179 in my novel.
The setting is Gazipur, East Pakistan, late May, 1971.
These guerrillas, the Mukti Bahini, have just completed an operation to blow up a bridge and have lost Jewel and Khalid, two of their own, in a bloody battle.
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