Aguner Poroshmoni

Aguner Poroshmoni is one of Humayun Ahmed’s most important novels, set in Dhaka during the Liberation War of 1971. It tells the story of a single household and a young guerrilla fighter taking shelter there, and the slow, terrified weeks of war as experienced from inside a city under occupation.

Humayun Ahmed lost his father in the war and the book carries that personal weight. It is one of the central novels of Bangladeshi Liberation War fiction.