Championed by Salman Rushdie in <em>The New Yorker,</em> Qurratulain Hyder is oneof the &ldquo;must reads&rdquo; of Indian literature. <em>Fireflies in the Mist</em> is Hyder&rsquo;s capstoneto her astonishing <em>River of Fire</em>, which was hailed by <em>The New York Review ofBooks</em> as &ldquo;magisterial with a technical resourcefulness rarely seen before inUrdu fiction.&rdquo; <em>Fireflies</em> follows the creation of modern day Bangladesh &mdash; from Indian province, to Partition, to the emergence of statehood &mdash; as told through theimpassioned voice of Deepali Sarkar and others around her who live throughthe turbulence. Hyder perceptively and majestically follows the trajectory ofSarkar&rsquo;s life &mdash; from her secluded upbringing in Dhaka to becoming a socialistrebel and to her ultimate transformation as a diasporic Bengali cosmopolitan &mdash;in the way that many of yesterday&rsquo;s revolutionaries are slowly but surely ensnared within a net of class and luxury dangled in front of them.