Good Night, Mr.Kissinger & Other Stories

Opening in the days before war and ending in the skyline of modern Dhaka, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger traces the city’s transformation from quiet suburb to restless megacity. K. Anis Ahmed brings together a constellation of characters whose stories capture the country’s shifting soul: a mysterious young girl whose brief presence reshapes a neighborhood; brothers raised to be indistinguishable by a father terrified of rivalry; a vanished novelist whose absence becomes his legacy; and James D’Costa, an exiled Bangladeshi waiter whose unlikely encounter with Henry Kissinger forces the past to confront the present.
Through these lives—marked by ambition, loss, and belonging—Ahmed paints a vivid, tender, and sometimes satirical portrait of a people and a city forever in flux.