The First Jasmines

Name: The First Jasmines
Brand: Hajar Press
SKU: 9781914221248
Price: 2450 KES
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ISBN: 9781914221248

by Saima Begum

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1914221249

ISBN-13 9781914221248

Publisher Hajar Press

Imprint Hajar Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 31st, 2025

Print length 248 Pages

Weight 234 grams

Dimensions 13.10 x 19.70 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Historical fiction

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A story of silence and survival.

Shortlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize 2026. East Pakistan, 1971. On their way to visit their mother, two sisters, Lucky and Jamila, are captured by Pakistani soldiers and thrown into a world of horror. Locked in a room in an unknown village-turned-camp by the river, the women look through a lone barred window onto white jasmines blooming day and night. Meanwhile, around the camp, deadly guerrilla fighters from the Bengali Mukti Bahini gather to take back territory from the Pakistan Army. As Bangladesh crowns painfully into the world, Lucky and Jamila must choose between heartbreak and secrecy to return from an unspoken violence.

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