Fireflies In The Mist Pa

Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is oneof the "must reads" of Indian literature. Fireflies in the Mist is Hyderrs"s capstoneto her astonishing River of Fire , which was hailed by The New York Review ofBooks as "magisterial with a technical resourcefulness rarely seen before inUrdu fiction." Fireflies follows the creation of modern day Bangladesh - from Indian province, to Partition, to the emergence of statehood - as told through theimpassioned voice of Deepali Sarkar and others around her who live throughthe turbulence. Hyder perceptively and majestically follows the trajectory ofSarkarrs"s life - from her secluded upbringing in Dhaka to becoming a socialistrebel and to her ultimate transformation as a diasporic Bengali cosmopolitan -in the way that many of yesterdayrs"s revolutionaries are slowly but surely ensnared within a net of class and luxury dangled in front of them.