GALPA: Short Stories by Women from Bangladesh

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Pages   280
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Lang.   English
Format   Paperback

 

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This vibrant and thought provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings. It includes stories about the 1971 War of Liberation, women’s ‘honour’, mother-daughter relationships, the vagaries of marriage and contemporary poltical corruption. Well-establisehd women writers such as Selina Hossain and Nasreen Jahan are represented here, along with emerging writers, the better to evoke the broad range of Bangladeshi women’s literary voices. Daring in both form and theme, these stories reveal the exciting transformation that fiction writing is currently experiencing on the contemporary literary scene.

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Author(s)

Pages

280

ISBN

Lang.

English

Format

Paperback

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