Philip Hensher
â€œAt that time, there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into trouble for singing a song. My grandfather hid all his Bengali poetry in the cellar.,â€œI was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.â€,One familyâ€™s life, and a nation â€“ Bangladesh â€“ being created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by Philip Hensherâ€™s husband Zaved, â€˜Scenes from Early Lifeâ€™ is in part a memoir, part fiction and part a history of one of the most savage of twentieth-century civil wars. Heartbreaking, funny and gripping, it is a unique novel by one of our finest writers.
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Scenes from Early Life