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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea - Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides (Paperback)
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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea - Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides (Paperback)
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These enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu
and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human
morality, social culture, and survival. The Bengali stories in this
collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in
Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to
work together-not just to overcome the challenges of living in the
Sundarban swamps of Bengal, but also to ease hostilities born of
social differences in religion, caste, and economic class.
Translated by award-winning scholar of early modern Bengali
literature Tony K. Stewart, Needle at the Bottom of the Sea brims
with fantasy and excitement. Sufi protagonists travel through a
world of wonder where tigers talk and men magically grow into
giants, a Hindu princess falls in love with a Muslim holy man, and
goddesses rub shoulders with kings and merchants. Across religion,
class, and gender, what binds these fabulous stories together is
the characters' pursuit of living honorably and morally in a
difficult, corrupt world.
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