Background
Adib Khan was born on January 29, 1949 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
In 1976 Adib Khan received his Master of Arts degree from the Monash University.
(Plagued by terminal illness, Khalid Sharif leaves his hom...)
Plagued by terminal illness, Khalid Sharif leaves his home in Calcutta to visit his Australian son, Javed. Javed is confounded by the old man's rebellious idiosyncrasies that contradict a life-long impression of a dull, predictable father who had devoted his life to business and family. What Javed does not know is that, as a young man, Khalid Sharif was sent to a sophisticated house of courtesans for a cultural education. Against convention, he fell in love with a young courtesan, Nazli, and asked her to marry him. An outraged family pressured him into breaking his betrothal.
https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Illusions-Adib-Khan/dp/1864481471/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Vamana is a dwarf abandoned by his parents and adopted by...)
Vamana is a dwarf abandoned by his parents and adopted by Maji, a woman who seems to see beyond the child's deformity to the humanity within. As Vamana grows older, he realises that he is always going to be an outcast, despite his magical gift for storytelling.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0732267870/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Martin Godwin is a man alone. Divorced from his wife, in ...)
Martin Godwin is a man alone. Divorced from his wife, in an uneasy relationship with his son, and with complicated, guilty feelings towards his lover, Nora, he is also a veteran of Vietnam, haunted by the fear that his exposure to dangerous chemicals such as Agent Orange has triggered his son's depression and haunted too by the events of one sweltering afternoon during a raid on a village. These memories become more urgent when an old soldier comes calling, asking for Martin's silence as he establishes a political career. This powerful novel winds the strands of Martin's life - father, comrade, lover, unwilling conspirator and reluctant spiritual searcher - into a seamless and compelling whole. Through its lens we are given a snapshot of contemporary Australia, groping towards meaning in a rapidly changing world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0732277078/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Masud Alam has lived in Australia for the past 30 of his ...)
Masud Alam has lived in Australia for the past 30 of his 53 years. Now his father, Abba, is dying, drifting in a haze of Alzheimer's, and Masud has returned to Bangladesh to say goodbye and to reconnect with his family.Unmarried, he instantly becomes the focus of his mother's match-making, which involves a local woman, Alya, who runs a factory providing jobs for rural women in a nearby village. He also begins to realise how far his family's fortunes have fallen, and how hard his brother Zia has had to work to keep them all afloat. As Masud reacquaints himself with his family and with Bangladesh, he realises how little he really knows them. Haunted by his own experiences as a soldier in Bangladesh's war of independence, he is surprised by the shifting, complex attitudes of his old friends and neighbours. He also discovers some family secrets, when a chance remark by his father prompts him to examine some old family papers.But most disturbing of all are the secrets of his young nephew, Omar, recently returned from America with a quiet steeliness in his gaze...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003B6QYWS/?tag=2022091-20
2007
Adib Khan was born on January 29, 1949 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In 1976 Adib Khan received his Master of Arts degree from the Monash University.
Adib Khan's first attempt at fiction was a short story written when he was nineteen, which was broadcast on the BBC World Service. He arrived in Australia in 1973 and became a permanent resident in 1977. In 1978 Khan received an Australian citizenship. He has taught English and history at Damascus College in Ballarat. Adib teaches creative writing at the University of Ballarat. He also appears frequently on talk shows on Australian radio and television.
(Vamana is a dwarf abandoned by his parents and adopted by...)
2000(Plagued by terminal illness, Khalid Sharif leaves his hom...)
1996(This story about an Australian emigrant, who returns to B...)
1994(Masud Alam has lived in Australia for the past 30 of his ...)
2007(Martin Godwin is a man alone. Divorced from his wife, in ...)
2003Adib Khan is married and has two daughters.