About the Book: Fireflies in the Mist
The song of the boatman on the Padma, a green haze of rice fields turning to
gold in the light of the setting sun, the romance of Bengal caught and held in
the silvery net of a fisherman. Ambitious, subtle and intricately structured,
Fireflies in the Mist— Hyders transcreation of her Urdu novel Akhir-e-Shab ke
Humsafar—spans nearly four decades of East Bengals history, from the dawn of
nationalism in the 1930s to the restless aftermath of the bloody struggle for an
independent Bangladesh. At the centre of the novel is Deepali Sarkar, a young
Hindu attracted to the extreme left