The Storm : Washington Square/Atria Books : 9781501174513 : 1501174517 : 27 Jul 2021 : From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, this "fascinating, ambitious" (The New York Times Book Review) and epic novel seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history?for fans of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the United States 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,