Ami Topu

Ami Topu is Muhammed Zafar Iqbal’s novel for younger readers, the kind of book Bangladeshi schoolchildren pass around between desks. The story follows Topu, a smart but stubborn boy whose life keeps colliding with the adult world he is too young to fully understand.

Zafar Iqbal has a gift for writing children who feel real. This is one of his most loved short novels.