01717nam a22002657a 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003202000180007304000130009108200200010424501470012426000670027130000300033852008570036852600080122565000550123365000280128865000220131670000190133870000190135770000160137670000190139285200400141134026BD-DhAAL20211124124856.0181128t2016    eng||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781905583805  aBD-DhAAL  a891.4430108223  aThe book of dhaka :ba city in short fiction /cedited by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam ; foreword by Kaiser Haq ; introduced by K. Anis Ahmed  aManchester :bComma Press ;bBengal Lights Books (blb),cc2016  axii, 164 pages ; c20 cm.  a	
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, gird-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, often with Dhaka's trademark rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories are translated).    aENH  aShort stories, BengalixTranslations into English.  aShort stories, Bengali.  aEnglish language.  aSinha, Arunava  aAlam, Pushpita  aHaq, Kaiser  aAhmed, K. Anis  aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks