Join us for the online launch of Nadeem Zaman's acclaimed novel, The Inheritors. We're delighted to be joined by the fêted writer and journalist Nadia Kabir Barb for a conversation around the book.
The launch will be online
12 noon US EST
5pm London (GMT+1)
‘We inherit the lineage we’re all born into, with its history and its contradictions, with the very beautiful and the very ugly, neither of which we can have a hand in being able to change.’
The family of Nisar Chowdhury moves from Dhaka to Chicago when he is just thirteen, and he grows up feeling estranged from both lands. Thirty years on, he returns to the city of his birth, only to find it changed beyond recognition.
Rekindling old relationships and trying to get to grips with his father’s decision to sell off their remaining properties in the city, Nisar must navigate the labyrinth of a society that has moved on without him. The Inheritors is a vivid portrait of a city giddy with the march of change.
‘An absolute joy to read… The characters are complex, and the pace is perfect.’
The Asian Age
‘A gripping tale delving into the complexity of relationships buried in half-truths inside a world driven by power and privilege.’
Swapna Peri, Storizen
‘This is a riveting image of Bangladesh, a nascent nation on ancient soil.’
Saikat Majumdar
Nadeem Zaman is the author of the novels In the Time of the Others, a nominee for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Culture Shocks, and a collection of stories Up in the Main House and Other Stories. His fiction has appeared in numerous journals around the world. Born in Dhaka, he lives in Maryland where he teaches in the English Department at St Mary’s College of Maryland.
Nadia Kabir Barb is a British Bangladeshi writer and journalist. Her work has been published in international literary journals and anthologies including Wasafiri, The Missing Slate, Open Road Review, Eclectic Mix, Golden Bangladesh at 50, Bengal Lights and Six Seasons Review. She was longlisted for the 2021 Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award for Walk in My Shadow. She has an MSc from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has worked in the health and development sector in both the UK and Bangladesh. Her short-story collection Truth or Dare was published by Renard Press in 2023.