In this debut collection, Nadeem Zaman explores the lives of the rich and the wretched, the powerful and the socially exiled, the loved and the lonesome. Set in Dhaka—where politics, tradition, and traffic all weave into the fabric of ordinary life in curious ways—these stories truly capture the pulse of the vibrant, chaotic megacity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nadeem Zaman is the author of the novel In the Time of the Others (Picador-Pan Macmillan 2018). His fiction has appeared in journals in the United States, India, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh.