EAN: 9780241562635

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF BENGALI SHORT STORIES - VAR...

A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English  including many previously
untranslated stories    'A splendid guide to unmapped lands... [Sinha] is one of the best
living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English... he writes with
exceptional elegance and wit  and is astonishingly productive.' - The Spectator   The prose
short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers  and Bengali writers quickly
made the form their own. By the twentieth century a profusion of literary magazines and
journals meant they were being avidly read by millions.  Writers responded to this hunger for
words with a ferocious energy which reflected the turmoil of their times: these stories covered
land wars  famine  the caste system  religious conflict  patriarchy  Partition and the
liberation war that saw the emergence of the independent country of Bangladesh. Across these
shifting geographical borders  writers also looked inward  evolving new literary styles and
stretching the possibilities of social realism  political fiction and intimate domestic tales.
A first in English  this anthology gathers together a century's worth of extraordinary stories.
From a woman who eats fish in secret to the woes of an ageing local footballer  from the
anxieties of a middle-class union rep to a lawyer who stumbles upon a philosopher's stone  this
is a collection that celebrates making art of life  in all its difficulty and joy.

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