a city in short fiction Sinha, Arunava Alam, Pushpita Haq, Kaiser Ahmed, K. Anis text eng Manchester Comma Press Bengal Lights Books (blb) c2016 2016 monographic eng

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xii, 164 pages ; 20 cm. 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). edited by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam ; foreword by Kaiser Haq ; introduced by K. Anis Ahmed ENH Short stories, Bengali Translations into English Short stories, Bengali English language 891.4430108 9781905583805 Ayesha Abed Library BD-DhAAL 181128 20211124124856.0 34026