The Book of Dhaka - A City in Short Fiction (Paperback)

Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-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 famous 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 have been translated).

General

Imprint:	Comma Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Reading the City
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Anwara Syed Haq • Moinul Ahsan Saber • Syed Manzoorul Islam • Parvez Hossain • Rashida Sultana • Salma Bani • Shaheen Akhtar
Editors:	Pushpita Alam • Arunava Sinha
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-905583-80-5
Subtitles:	Bengali
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-905583-80-X
Barcode:	9781905583805

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