Starting with the theme of sex and adolescence, tolerance and violence, balance and ambivalence finally unfurls a twilight zone of complex human existence, of Blake's innocence and experience. The characters mostly come from middle class, their hopes are enormous, their dreams are large, but all their struggles end in farce.
Starting with the theme of sex and adolescence, tolerance and violence, balance and ambivalence finally unfurls a twilight zone of complex human existence, of Blake's innocence and experience. The characters mostly come from middle class, their hopes are enormous, their dreams are large, but all their struggles end in farce.
Starting with the theme of sex and adolescence, tolerance and violence, balance and ambivalence finally unfurls a twilight zone of complex human existence, of Blake's innocence and experience. The characters mostly come from middle class, their hopes are enormous, their dreams are large, but all their struggles end in farce.
ear UdHUMAYUN AHMED
born November 13, 1948.
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
Started writing fiction
in 1972.
Gifted with a unique prose-style --
simple and unostentatious,
subtle and spontaneous.
Most prolific, most popular.
The leading writer
of today's Bangladesh.
Honours include
Bangla Academy Literary Award,
Bangladesh Shishu Academy Award,
Michael Madhusudan Medal,
Osmani Memorial Medal,
Alakta Literary Award,
Humayun Qadir Memorial Award
etc,
Recently visited
University of lowa, USA
as ‘Honorary Fellow in Writing .
Married to Gultekin.
Three daughters
Nova, Sheela, Bipasha
and a son, Nuhash.IN BLISSFUL HELL
(Nandita Narake),
starting with the theme of
sex and adolescence,
tolerance and violence,
balance and ambivalence
finally unfurls
a twilight zone
of complex human existence,
of Blake's
innocence and experience.
The characters
mostly come from
middle class,
their hopes are enormous,
their dreams are large,
but all their struggles
end in farce.
In Blissful Hell,
the novel Humayun made his debut with,
is still a best-seller,
rightly called 'a contemporary classic’
that stood the test of
Time and Aesthetics.ae
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SOMO! 48
First Published S
April 1993
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ISBN 984-458-045-5About the translator &
MOHAMMAD NURUL HUDA
born on September 30, 1949
at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
At present working as Deputy Dj
Bangla Academy, Dhaka. Y
A Jeading poet of the coufma
Also a critic, a translator,
an editor and a research worker.
Started writing since mid-sixties.