The living and the dead ; The punishment ; The girl in between ; Haimanti ; Letter from a wife / Rabindranath Thakur -- The witch ; Variation on "The witch" : an excerpt / Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay -- The unlucky woman ; A tale of these days ; The old woman ; A female problem at a low level / Manik Bandyopadhyay -- Paddy seeds ; Dhowli ; The funeral wailer ; Strange children ; The witch-hunt ; Giribala / Mahasweta Devi -- The daughter and the oleander ; In search of happiness ; Through death and life ; A day in Bhushan's life / Hasan Azizul Huq
Summary
Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories-stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation. Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumul
Analysis
Bengali fiction Short stories
Notes
Translated from Bengali
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
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