The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAW098
Author: Arunava Sinha
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Language: English
ISBN: 9789382277743
Pages: 302
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 8.00 X 5.50 inch
Weight 310 gm

Book Description

About The Book

Some of the world's finest short fiction has originated (and continues to flow) from the cities, villages, rivers, forests and plains of Bengal. This selection features twenty-one of the very best stories from the region. Here, the reader will find one of Rabindranath Tagore's most revered stories The Kabuliwallah' in a glinting new translation, memorable studies of ordinary people by Tarashankar and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the iconic Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's wrenching study of Bengali society `Mahesh% as well as over a dozen other timeless stories by some of the greatest practitioners of the form—Buddhadeva Bose,Ashapurna Debi, Premendra Mitra, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Nabarun Bhattacharya, among others. These are stories of anger, loss, grief, disillusionment, magic, politics, trickery, humour and the darkness to be found in the mind and the heart.They reimagine life in ways that make them unforgettable.

About The Author

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Over thirty of his translations have been published so far.Twice the winner of the Crossword translation award, for Sankar's Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri's Seventeen (2011), he has also won the Muse India award for translation for When the Time Is Right (2012) and been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee. Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK and the US in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, and lives and writes in New Delhi.

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