Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that together chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi
history. Shahryar a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna must leave the US
when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together we learn Shahryar's history in
a village on the Bay of Bengal where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a
storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese pilot a British
doctor stationed in Burma during World War II and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leaves
everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India. Inspired by the
1970 Bhola cyclone in which half a million-people perished overnight the structure of this
riveting novelmimics the storm itself. Building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes
it shows the many ways in which families love betray honor and sacrifice for one another. At
once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative The Storm explores the humanity that
connects us beyond the surface differences of race religion and nationality. It is an epic
novel in the tradition of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine
Balance by a singularly gifted and perceptive new writer.
