Bachpan Ka December

Bachpan Ka December looks at one life from two distances: a small boy living through the late 1970s, and the same man in the late 1980s remembering it.

Hashim Nadeem writes childhood as it is actually recalled — in fragments, out of order, warmer than it was — and then lets the grown man's knowledge sit alongside it. A novel about memory and what growing up quietly takes from you.