ZUBEDA

• ISBN: 9789353173760

• Edition: 1

• Publishing Year: December 2019

• Pages: 384

• Language: Translated From English to Marathi

• Category: Fiction

• Binding: Paperback

• Publisher: Mehta Publishing House

Description:

• Plot Overview:

  • From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a lyrical, deeply moving modern love story that explores themes of belonging, migration, tragedy, survival, and the mysteries of origins.

  • On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale, a fossil that links our evolution, Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston. Their connection is immediate and intense, despite their differences:

    • Elijah comes from a prototypical American family.

    • Zubaida is the adopted daughter of a wealthy Bangladeshi family in Dhaka.

  • When a twist of fate sends her back to her hometown, society’s force compels her to take a different path: She marries her childhood best friend and settles into a traditional Bangladeshi life. While her family is pleased by her obedience, Zubaida is filled with discontent.

  • Desperate to free herself from her familial constraints, she moves to Chittagong to work on a documentary about the infamous beaches where ships are destroyed and their remains salvaged by locals.

  • Among these locals is Anwar, a shipbreaker whose story holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of Zubaida’s past—and the possibilities of a new life.

  • As she witnesses a ship being torn down to its bones, Zubaida, torn between the social mores of Bangladesh and America, will be forced to strip away the vestiges of her own life and make a choice from which she can never turn back.