Shesh Bikeler Meye

Shesh Bikeler Meye is Zahir Raihan’s quietly tragic short novel of late afternoon love and missed chances, set in 1960s East Pakistan. The book is sentimental in the best way and has held a place in Bangladeshi reading life for more than fifty years.

Zahir Raihan disappeared during the Liberation War in 1971 and his loss is still felt. Books like this one are part of why.