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Bashar, Abul

 
9780857425508: The Open-winged Scorpion: And Other Stories
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ISBN 10 : 0857425501 ISBN 13 : 9780857425508
Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The Open-Winged Scorpion and Other Stories is a collection of ten powerful Bengali short stories, all translated into English for the first time. Hailing from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, Abul Bashar pens stories about precarious lives of marginal Muslim communities in that district. His tales are shot through with the fears, dreams, hopes, and anxieties of the communities he portrays: their poverty and piety, the sensuality of the ancient mythologies they reimagine and remember, the rituals that permeate their lives, and the ever-present influence of the River Padma, which brings the silt that makes the land flourish--and the floods that destroy the crops and the people who plant them. The complex dynamics of the trivial and the transcendental emerge in Bashar's stories, as the tales become no less than an archive and richly imagined historical testimony of an abject community relegated to the margins of the society too focused on the future to remember people who are struggling in the here and now.

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À propos de l'auteur

Abul Bashar is the author of more than forty books.

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Éditeur
Seagull Books London Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857425501
ISBN 13 
9780857425508
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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