{"product_id":"books-the-storm-by-arif-anwar","title":"The Storm","description":"From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, a sweeping tour de force that seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a vil-lage on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese pilot, a British doctor stationed in Burma during World War I, and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leaves everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India. Inspired by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which half a million-people perished overnight, the structure of this riveting novel mimics the storm itself. Building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes, it shows the many ways in which families love, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, \u003ci\u003eThe Storm \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the human-ity that connects us beyond the surface differences of race, religion, and nationality. It is an epic novel in the tradition of Khaled Hosseini's \u003ci\u003eThe Kite Runner \u003c\/i\u003eand Rohinton Mistry's \u003ci\u003eA Fine Balance\u003c\/i\u003e, by a singularly gifted and perceptive new writer.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669642764561,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781501174506.jpg?v=1781509757","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-storm-by-arif-anwar","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}