Talashnama - Couverture souple

Darbesh, Ismail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9354898955 ISBN 13 : 9789354898952

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2024

Synopsis

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Set in Sadnahati, a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal, Talashnama is the story of Riziya, an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past.

Hounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque - an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers. Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation...

Ismail Darbesh's debut novel, Talashnama, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V. Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in today's India.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

<span style="font-size: 13px;">Ismail Darbesh was born in an ‘ostagar' or traditional garment-maker family, and completed his schooling at Tentulkuli High School and Makardaha Bamasundari Institution, after which he attended Narsingha Dutta College in Howrah and graduated with Honours in Bengali. He began writing stories, essays, features and sketches for little magazines from the time he was in college, but discontinued thereafter. From 2016, after getting a smartphone, he began writing again, this time on Facebook. His collection of short stories,<I> Kangshobodher Nepothye</I> (Behind the Scenes of Kamsa's Vanquishment) was published in 2020 by Abhijan, Kolkata. <I>Talashnama</I>, his first novel – which also began as a series of posts on Facebook – was published by Abhijan in 2021. <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">His second novel, <I>Raanridighir Brittanto</I> (Tales from Raanridighi), will be published later this year.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-family: Times, serif; color: #58595b;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">V. Ramaswamy has translated Subimal Misra's <I>The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories</I>, <I>Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories</I>, <I>Anti-Stories</I>, <I>This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels</I>, and <I>The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories</I>; Shahidul Zahir's <I>Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas</I> (with Shahroza Nahrin), <I>Why There Are No Noyontara Flowers in Agargaon Colony: Stories</I>, and <I>I See the Face: A Novel</I>; Manoranjan Byapari's novels <I>The Runaway Boy </I>and <I>The Nemesis</I>; and <I>Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins </I>by Adhir Biswas. He has also translated works by Mashiul Alam, Shahaduz Zaman and Swati Guha<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">. </span>He was a recipient of the Literature Across Frontiers–Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in creative writing and translation at Aberystwyth University in 2016, the New India Foundation translation fellowship in 2022, the PEN Presents award in 2022, and the Bangla Translation Foundation (Dhaka) prize for the best translated book of 2022. He lives in Kolkata.</span><br /></span>

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9354898955
• ISBN 13: 9789354898952
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 572
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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