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ISBN: 9789354892134
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Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Taxi Wallah and Other Stories
Author: Taxi Wallah and Other Stories
Author: Numair Atif ChoudhuryPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9354890040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
'Numair Choudhury is the Bangladeshi Bolano' AMITAVA KUMAR Numair Atif Choudhury's first and only novel, Babu Bangladesh!, published posthumously, was heralded as a sui generis masterpiece. In Taxi Wallah and Other Stories, we encounter more of Choudhury's limitless imagination and deep empathy as he captures the many Bangladeshes that make up the nation. The stories in this collection are bound by their protagonists - outsiders looking in - whether it is the taxi wallah of the title story who ferries tourists to upmarket hotels in Gulshan, the chokra for whom the streets of Dhaka are both sustenance and threat, Rabia the maid who feels compelled to call even the youngest of her employer's children 'Apa', or the brick breaker who finds his life draining away as he hammers rubble at construction sites... Fuelled by Choudhury's trademark linguistic verve and energy, Taxi Wallah and Other Stories is a searing yet tender portrait of a country that is fractured but lets in light through the cracks.
Speaking to Sushila and Other Stories
Author: Myron PereiraPublisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1646509188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Speaking to Sushila is the story of Sushila, a young, middle-class woman, who fights for freedom and respect from her family. In Gambit, a drug deal gone sour brings death and violence to idyllic Goa. Her niece’s predicament urges an older woman to hit back and right a wrong. Conversation probes the background of two women very unlike each other. Kaavi, My Sister tells the tale of a young married woman’s unusual friendship with an adivasi village girl. Under different skins, both of them have common urges. Lydia, Merchant of Purple is about an accomplished woman with a successful business in a patriarchal society. It’s a fascinating tale from first-century Greece. Open this book and start anywhere. You have fifteen choices. Perhaps one of these is a story waiting for you to encourage you to tell your own story.
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism
Author: Patricia GarcíaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303142798X
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Babu Bangladesh!
Author: Numair Atif ChoudhuryPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9353570581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2019.Bangladesh, 2028. A biographer begins to document the life of an enigmatic and controversial political luminary - Babu, also known as 'Babu Bangladesh'. In unearthing the story of a man whom many thought was the leader of his generation, he begins to uncover the story of a nation itself. Buildings acquire consciousness to chart political outcomes, a tree stands defiantly even as marauding troops try to blast it out of existence, tribes of snake and tree worshipers compete for regional supremacy, even as fish-humanoids emerge from the waters ... Flitting between fantasy and reality, manoeuvring through the rainforest swamps of Bangladesh with as much ease as the immigrant colonies of New York, blurring the boundaries between myth, history and truth, Babu Bangladesh! is a work of stunning scope and ambition from the most exciting literary voice to emerge from the Subcontinent in years.
Come Back, My Master and Other Stories
Author: Kartar Singh DuggalPublisher:
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Category : Panjabi fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This Volume Is Collection Of 40 Superb Stories Written By One Of India`S Short Story Writers. Translated From The Original Punjabi, Most Of These Stories Have Been Rendered Into Important Indian And Foreign Languages And Have Won Wide Acclaim. Powerful And Earthy, The Stories Portray Indian Society In A Flux. Condition Good.
Come to Mecca
Author: Farrukh DhondyPublisher: Fontana Press
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Category : Minority youth
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Six stories about kids in London today, especially Asian and Black kids.
Road Wallah
Author: Dougie Wallace (Photographer)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907893858
Category : Street photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Premier Padmini taxis, first introduced to Mumbai in the 1960s, have now all but disappeared. Over a 4 year period Dougie Wallace photographed these elaborate Bollywood disco bars on wheels.
Greasy Lake & Other Stories
Author: T. Coraghessan BoylePublisher: Viking Adult
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khrushchev. "Boyle is in absolute command," says The Detroit News, "wholly at home and always funny." Book jacket.
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