![]() Sunrise and sunset are two other symbols spun into the fabric of the novel, pointing to the evolution of human life, the movement from birth to death. East and west where initially a demarcation on the map but soon west recedes further as younger people from the east migrate to the US and the UK leaving the aging parents at home. Under the deceptively simple surface are hidden deeper and more complex human issues. ![]() There is the unspoken and inescapable bitter conclusion - perhaps the twain can never meet. There is no sentimental reunion, in fact the novel precariously poised, steers clear of sentimentality. The two friends drift apart, separated by the political division, and then each is caught up in his own problem. ![]() The story, revolving around two college friends, both Bengali though one Hindu and the other Muslim soon takes into its expanding orbit other characters, families, issues. But their problems were vastly different. This novel is a record of those tumultuous times in East Pakistan as well as Indian Bengal. Culturally and linguistically dissimilar, East and West Pakistan had to forge their different destinies. ![]() That a newly born country could exist as two geographically separated units was also an unheard of event. Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysĮast-West is a Bengali novel set against the backdrop of the biggest exodus in human history - the 1947 partition of India. ![]()
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