Rahad Abir

Goodreads Author


Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
July 2023


Rahad Abir is a writer from Bangladesh. His debut novel, Bengal Hound, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for literary fiction. He has an MFA in fiction from Boston University. He is the recipient of the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia and the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction. His work has been translated into French and Hindi. Currently he is working on a short story collection, which was a finalist for the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship.

Average rating: 3.5 · 20 ratings · 10 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Bengal Hound: A Novel

3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Rahad’s Recent Updates

Rahad Abir has read
Bengal Hound by Rahad Abir
Bengal Hound: A Novel
by Rahad Abir (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
"I just finished reading this book in record time. I couldn't put it down."--Orlando Montoya, Narrative Edge co-host, GPB News.

"The novel stands out as a promising debut. It is a seriously researched work that sheds light on important events in South
...more
Bengal Hound by Rahad Abir
"damn......bengali literary fiction sign me up. how have i never seen this before "
More of Rahad's books…
Quotes by Rahad Abir  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“That male organ was the main point of the Partition. India had been partitioned on the grounds of circumcision. That was the issue Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi had fought for. And thus the two nations were born. One circumcised. Another uncircumcised.”
Rahad Abir, Bengal Hound: A Novel

“That male organ was the main point of the Partition. India had been partitioned on the grounds of circumcision. That was the issue Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi had fought for. And thus the two nations were born. One circumcised. Another uncircumcised."--from Bengal Hound”
Rahad Abir, Bengal Hound: A Novel

“That male organ was the main point of the Partition. India had been partitioned on the grounds of circumcision. That was the issue Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi had fought for. And thus the two nations were born. One circumcised. Another uncircumcised.”
Rahad Abir, Bengal Hound: A Novel

No comments have been added yet.