It was inSix Seasons Reviewno. 2, 2001, that Fakrul Alam noted Tori's first bookAva(1998) and wrote that though these are "stories written in adolescence for an adolescent audience," yet "someone who can write with such vividness and economy has a lot of promise." I came across Sayeema Tori's second book of stories quite by chance, and in two of her stories here, 'Azam San' and 'Professor Richard,' one very much a Dhaka story and the other a diary of an American encounter, she displays some bursts of that same promise.I am aware that Sayeema does write the occasional short story, but that won't do: She must write more, and keep on writing.
Khademul Islam is literary editor, The Daily Star.
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