Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction by Arunava Sinha

 · The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction, Edited by: Arunava Sinha and Pushpita Alam, BLB, , ISBN You can judge a book by its cover, banal stereotypes notwithstanding. The Author: Shamsad Mortuza. The Book of Dhaka | Dhaka is the world's tenth largest city with a population of more than 18 million people. We will bring ten unique short stories from this overwhelming, vibrant, capital city to English-reading audiences in the next installation of our popular "Reading the City" series. Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction. 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 .

The Reading the City Series celebrates the best translated short stories from around the world. Since , Comma have sourced a selection of ten authors from specific cities to collate ten short stories that depict the social, historical or political essence of their contemporary city. Each story is translated (for the first time) into English and published, so that each anthology is a. "Pagli", Ed. Niaz Zaman. The Demoness: The Best Bangladeshi Short Stories Aleph, (Translation of a short story by Anwara Syed Huq) "The Circle" Ed. Pushpita Alam and Arunava Sinha. The Book of Dhaka. London and Dhaka: Comma Press and Bengal Lights. (Translation of a short story by Moinul Ahsan Saber) National. The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction. (27 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback; Arunava Sinha is a translator from India. He translates classic, modern, and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English. Thirty of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, for Sankar's.

The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction, Edited by: Arunava Sinha and Pushpita Alam, BLB, , ISBN You can judge a book by its cover, banal stereotypes notwithstanding. The. 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. The Book of Dhaka. A City in Short Fiction. Arunava Sinha, Pushpita Alam. Paperback ; New Delhi, pages. Price INR ADD TO CART View Cart.