Booksবই
Novels and story collections, newest first. Every book is available from Rokomari and good bookshops in Bangladesh.
Tahmid Rahman
ধার করা আলো
The Light We Borrow
The new novelনতুন উপন্যাস
The Light We Borrow
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India
- Year
- 2025
- Bengali title
- ধার করা আলো
A tender novel about three generations of women in a small riverside town, learning to forgive the past and choose the future. Set against the changing seasons of Bangladesh, it asks what it means to return home after a long absence.
Earlier booksআগের বই(9)
Tahmid Rahman
ক্ষতে নুন
Salt in the Wound
2021
Salt in the Wound
ক্ষতে নুন
A family gathers for a wedding and discovers that old grievances travel just as well as the guests. A novel about the things siblings forgive, and the things they only pretend to.
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না-পাঠানো চিঠি
Letters Never Sent
2018
Letters Never Sent
না-পাঠানো চিঠি
Forty letters, found in a tin trunk after a mother's death, tell a story her children never knew. A novel in fragments about love, silence and what we choose to keep.
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নির্ঝর লেনের বাড়ি
The House on Nirjhor Lane
2016
The House on Nirjhor Lane
নির্ঝর লেনের বাড়ি
Three tenants share one old house in a changing neighbourhood. Over a single monsoon, their lives lean into each other in ways none of them planned.
MoreTahmid Rahman
বর্ষার গল্প
Monsoon Stories
2013
Monsoon Stories
বর্ষার গল্প
Twelve stories set in the wet months: missed trains, borrowed umbrellas, and the small kindnesses of strangers waiting out the rain together.
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রাতের শেষ প্রহর
Small Hours
2010
Small Hours
রাতের শেষ প্রহর
Stories from the hours between midnight and dawn, when night-shift workers, insomniacs and new parents find the city quieter and themselves more honest.
MoreTahmid Rahman
কাগজের নৌকা
Paper Boats
2007
Paper Boats
কাগজের নৌকা
An early collection: childhood stories of a riverside town, told with the clear eyes of someone who has only just begun to leave it.
MoreTahmid Rahman
গোধূলির খেয়া
The Ferry at Dusk
2005
The Ferry at Dusk
গোধূলির খেয়া
A ferryman, a schoolteacher and a boy with a borrowed bicycle cross the same river every evening for a year. A short novel about the routes we take without noticing.
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শীতের চিঠি
Winter Letters
2003
Winter Letters
শীতের চিঠি
Two cousins write to each other across one cold season, one in Dhaka and one abroad. Their letters grow more honest the further apart they drift.
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ঘর নামের শহর
A Town Called Home
2001
A Town Called Home
ঘর নামের শহর
The first stories: a small town, its tea stalls and its train station, seen by the people who never left it.
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