Arek Falgun

Arek Falgun is Zahir Raihan’s short novel about the language movement of February 1952, when students in Dhaka were killed for demanding Bengali as a state language of Pakistan. The story is set on a single February day many years later, but the memory of 1952 runs through every chapter.

Zahir Raihan was himself part of that generation. The book is short and intense, and remains one of the key novels about the events that eventually led to Bangladesh.