Seven Heavens

01 December, 2014

Samim Ahmed

Translated from Bengali

by Arunava Sinha

Hachette India, 184 pages, Rs.299

German Hossain, the protagonist of this novel, is afflicted by dreams. As India’s independence approaches, Hossain, a resident of Birbhum district in Bengal, sets out for Murshidabad in the hope of curing his dream-sickness, and aiming to make his home in the new Pakistan. But when, after a three-day tug-of-war, the powers that be decree that Murshidabad must go back to India, German decides to return to his place of birth, still plagued by his dreams and led by them, still in search of his destiny.