Hajar Bochor Dhore

Hajar Bochor Dhore is one of Zahir Raihan’s most loved novels, set in a Bangladeshi village where life moves slowly and the same patterns repeat from one generation to the next. The story follows a few neighbouring families and the small jealousies, marriages, and quiet sorrows that make up their days.

Zahir Raihan was a filmmaker as well as a writer, and you can feel that visual eye in the way he describes village life. The book is short and easy to read, but it stays with you afterwards.