Ahmede Hussain is a Bangladeshi writer and journalist. His ancestors hail from the former Portuguese enclave of Patherghata, Chittagong in Bangladesh. He was the Literary Editor of Bangladesh’s The Daily Star. He has edited, to critical acclaim, The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words (Westland Books; India; 2009), an anthology of South Asian fiction in English. He is at work on his second novel.
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Praise for Flowers for the Dead
“Set in 1971, as East and West Pakistan are riven by a civil war, evoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Ahmede’s Flowers for the Dead is an illuminating incursion into not just the past but, above all, into how the past continues to haunt us.”
—Tabish Khair,
Writer and critic
“A story about nations, a story about identities, the narration of Flowers for the Dead is stylish in a sad way, and so very erudite.”
— Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar,
Novelist
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