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The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Hardcover – June 25 2024

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A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories
'A splendid guide to unmapped lands… [Sinha] is one of the best living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English… he writes with exceptional elegance and wit, and is astonishingly productive.' - The Spectator

The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twentieth century a profusion of literary magazines and journals meant they were being avidly read by millions.

Writers responded to this hunger for words with a ferocious energy which reflected the turmoil of their times: these stories covered land wars, famine, the caste system, religious conflict, patriarchy, Partition and the liberation war that saw the emergence of the independent country of Bangladesh. Across these shifting geographical borders, writers also looked inward, evolving new literary styles and stretching the possibilities of social realism, political fiction and intimate domestic tales.

A first in English, this anthology gathers together a century's worth of extraordinary stories. From a woman who eats fish in secret to the woes of an ageing local footballer, from the anxieties of a middle-class union rep to a lawyer who stumbles upon a philosopher's stone, this is a collection that celebrates making art of life, in all its difficulty and joy.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0241562635
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0241562635
  3. Publisher
    Penguin Classic
  4. Publication date
    June 25 2024
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    16.2 x 3.5 x 24 cm
  7. Print length
    512 pages
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A splendid guide to unmapped lands… [Sinha] is one of the best living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English… he writes with exceptional elegance and wit, and is astonishingly productive—Philip Hensher, The Spectator

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Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classic
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 25 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241562635
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241562635
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 720 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.2 x 3.5 x 24 cm
  • 鶹 Rank: #1,040,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • AvalokIshwar
    5.0 out of 5 stars great collection of short stories
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2025
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    as far as books go, this is a great collection of short stories. There are 37 short stories including the required ones from Tagore and Ray. But there are a lot of other writers I had not heard of, and this book took me to places and times I had not been or thought of. a keeper of a book, I got the library edition - hardback
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