The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction

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. Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, which emerged as a nation state in 1971 after a violent struggle for independence from West Pakistan. Bangladesh and Dhaka have a very complex political and social history and an incredibly rich and varied cultural inheritance. Comma are very excited to bring a host of short stories in translation to a new audience.

About the author

Authors in The Book of Dhaka include: Akhteruzzaman Elias, Anwara Syed Haq, Bipradash Barua, Moinul Ahsan Saber, Parvez Hossain, Rashida Sultana, Salma Bani, Shaheen Akhtar, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Wasi Ahmed

Summary

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).

Product details

• Authors: Shaheen Akhtar, Salma Bani, Bipradesh Barua, Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Anwara Syed Haq, Parvez Hossain, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Ra Page, MOINUL AHSAN SABER, Rashida Sultana
• Assisted by: Pushpita Alam (Editor), Arunava Sinha (Editor)
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781905583805
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-80-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 196 g
• Series: Reading the City; Reading the City
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature