Galpa : Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0863565670
ISBN-13
9780863565670
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Saqi Books
Country of Manufacture
LB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 4th, 2005
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 13.70 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Short stories
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This 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 political corruption.
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 political corruption. Well-established women writers such as Selina Hossain and Nasreen Jehan 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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