The First Jasmines - Couverture souple

Begum, Saima

 
9781914221248: The First Jasmines

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2026.

East Pakistan, 1971. On their way to visit their mother, two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, are captured by Pakistani soldiers and thrown into a world of horror.

Locked in a room in an unknown village-turned-camp by the river, the women look through a lone barred window onto white jasmines blooming day and night. Meanwhile, around the camp, deadly guerrilla fighters from the Bengali Mukti Bahini gather to take back territory from the Pakistan Army.

As Bangladesh crowns painfully into the world, Lucky and Jamila must choose between heartbreak and secrecy to return from an unspoken violence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Saima Begum is a British-Bangladeshi writer based in North London. She won the MFest Short Story Competition in 2021. Her debut novel, The First Jasmines, was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2026.

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