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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).
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