02067nam a22003137a 4500 34026 BD-DhAAL 20211124124856.0 181128t2016 eng||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 40123 40123 9781905583805 BD-DhAAL 891.4430108 23 The book of dhaka : a city in short fiction / edited by Arunava Sinha & Pushpita Alam ; foreword by Kaiser Haq ; introduced by K. Anis Ahmed Manchester : Comma Press ; Bengal Lights Books (blb), c2016 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). ENH Trim Education 34026 Short stories, Bengali Translations into English. 29056 Short stories, Bengali. 29057 English language. 43051 Sinha, Arunava 29058 Alam, Pushpita 29059 Haq, Kaiser 29060 Ahmed, K. Anis 29061 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 891_443010800000000_BOO 0 64699 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-11-20 Trim Education 1550.00 6 39 891.4430108 BOO 3010034026 2025-12-14 2025-12-03 1 1550.00 2018-11-20 BK