{"product_id":"fireflies-in-the-mist-9780811218658","title":"Fireflies in the Mist","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Qurratulain Hyder\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChampioned by Salman Rushdie in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/em\u003e Qurratulain Hyder is one of the \"must reads\" of Indian literature. \u003cem\u003eFireflies in the Mist\u003c\/em\u003e is Hyder's capstone to her astonishing \u003cem\u003eRiver of Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, which was hailed by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e as \"magisterial with a technical resourcefulness rarely seen before in Urdu fiction.\" \u003cem\u003eFireflies\u003c\/em\u003e follows the creation of modern day Bangladesh -- from Indian province, to Partition, to the emergence of statehood -- as told through the impassioned voice of Deepali Sarkar and others around her who live through the turbulence. Hyder perceptively and majestically follows the trajectory of Sarkar's life -- from her secluded upbringing in Dhaka to becoming a socialist rebel and to her ultimate transformation as a diasporic Bengali cosmopolitan -- in the way that many of yesterday's revolutionaries are slowly but surely ensnared within a net of class and luxury dangled in front of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47576126554263,"sku":"9780811218658","price":1186.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811218658.webp?v=1774899950","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fireflies-in-the-mist-9780811218658","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}