Instead of giving readers a foreshadowing of what's to come, it wastes time dwelling on the protagonist's fascination with a chef's special menu which won't make an appearance at any other point in the story, despite food and hunger being two of the primary themes in the story.Īntagonist Mushkan Juberi is largely described as a manipulative woman who essentially seduces "gullible" men around her to do her bidding. Prologues are usually meant to draw the reader into the story before it begins, but the plainly-written starter to this novel comes across as an unnecessary chapter. Early on in the prologue of Rabindranath Ekhane Kokhono Khete Asen Ni (Batighar Prokashoni, 2015), we're introduced to a rather uninteresting protagonist, Noore Safa, a Bengali journalist from abroad, who arrives in the fictional Shundorpur and proceeds to dine at the mysterious Mushkan Juberi's roadside eatery. Mohammad Nazim Uddin's fictional offering ultimately hovers somewhere between pulp fiction and feminist commentary, but it fails to satisfy readers on either count. I was about 10 pages in when I realised that I'd made a mistake. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.
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