Publisher: Bengal Publications

Edition: First Edition

Publication Date: January 1, 2015

Faded is the debut novel by Khondokar Ashif uz Zaman who is currently doing his Bachelors in Business Administration from North South University. This is a novel about a young woman who gets involved in a detective case while searching for his best friend. Mia Fiqueen. While searching for Zayen, her friend, Mia seems to be searching her own truth that she was denying herself.

Whom does she love more? Her husband, Liaqat? Or her lost friend, Zayan? Faded through its detective search to find truth reveals an inner, hidden trauma of the protagonist, Mia.

Zaman crafts the fiction with a strong hand both in verses and proses. Here and there in the text we see couples of verses are sprinkled in order to strengthen the narration as the verses work as riddles to solve the mystery. But who writes the poems? Zyan? Or someone else? To know the answer you have to read to the end. And you cannot escape reading the whole book once you start reading the first page.