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Books
Man of the Wild
Conservationist Vivek Menon on charismatic mammals, environmental awareness and the urgent need for land securement
The executioner’s song
A dark, masterful satire plays on death and the media, bringing one of Kerala’s strongest voices to English via Calcutta
The international list
From Britain’s music scene of the 90s to China’s Cultural Revolution to the publishing worlds of New York and London, a treat of drama and comedy
The wretched land
A study of Pakistan’s pervasive military influence masters the broad strokes of its history but lacks the insight of intimacy
The island of the day before
An empathetic portrait of the Sri Lankan Civil War gives powerful voice to the living and the dead
Graveyard of ignorance
A first-hand study of Pashtuns offers a native’s perspective often lost on world capitals
Sacred treasure
A limited edition pictorial guide to Varanasi returns a rare British Library map to India after more than a century
‘I have an ill-defined yearning to belong to some stretch of this earth’
Zia Haider Rahman’s first novel, In the Light of What We Know, is already the literary event of the year (reviewed in Open, ‘A Groundbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’, 23 June 2014). Born in Bangladesh and educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale, Rahman has worked as an investment banker and human rights lawyer. The novelist in conversation with S Prasannarajan, editor, Open magazine
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