`Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin's first major work in exile, My Girlhood (Amar Meyebela in original Bengali) is a sensitive retelling of her growing up as part of an extended family in Bangladesh and erstwhile East Pakistan. The pictures emerge like flashes from a coloful kaleidoscope, creating a brilliant image as the author moves back and forth between her own life and that of a fledgling nation...'
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