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020			_a9781905583805
040			_aBD-DhAAL
082			_a891.4430108 _223
245			_aThe book of dhaka : _ba city in short fiction / _cedited by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam ; foreword by Kaiser Haq ; introduced by K. Anis Ahmed
260			_aManchester : _bComma Press ; _bBengal Lights Books (blb), _cc2016
300			_axii, 164 pages ; _c20 cm.
520			_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).
526			_aENH
650			_aShort stories, Bengali _xTranslations into English. _929056
650			_aShort stories, Bengali. _929057
650			_aEnglish language. _943051
700			_aSinha, Arunava _929058
700			_aAlam, Pushpita _929059
700			_aHaq, Kaiser _929060
700			_aAhmed, K. Anis _929061
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
942			_2ddc _cBK