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  • Abandon

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    "And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair – for that is what makes good literature – while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son." A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel ... Read more

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  • Ten Days Of The Strike

    Selected Stories

    'Incredible ... tender, bookish and weary, as well as soaked through with rage' --- ANJUM HASAN'Important stories that afford readers a glimpse of the richness of experience and experimentation in Indian literature' --- ANUKRTI UPADHYAY'Keenly observed and finely detailed' --- JAYASREE KALATHILSandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Panty

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    A young woman arrives alone in Kolkota, an unfamiliar city in which she knows no-one, and moves into a guesthouse. Her sense of identity already shaken, when she finds a worn pair of leopard print panties in the otherwise-empty wardrobe she begins to fantasise about their former owner, whose imagined life comes to blur with and overlap her own. Darkly glamorous and ferociously erotic, Sangeeta ... Read more

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  • The Yogini

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Winner, English PEN Translates AwardSangeeta Bandyopadhyay is back with a hallucinatory and explosively sensual new novel following the acclaimed Panty and Abandon.With her days split between a passionate marriage and a high-octane television studio job, Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman – until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street. This mysterious figure begins to follow her ... Read more

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  • Abandon

    "India has found its Ferrante" — Niven Govinden And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair – for that is what makes good literature – while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son. Ishwari has run away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and devote her attentions to writing a novel… only to realise that her five year ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Dhaka

    A City in Short Fiction

    Series series Reading the City
    Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Khwabnama

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Bengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Unlove Story

    by Sudipto Pal ...
    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Series series The Pride List
    A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love.Mallar, a shy and introspective sixteen-year-old, finds himself drawn to Srijan, his classmate’s enigmatic elder cousin, during a fateful summer in a small-town family home. At first, Mallar’s fantasies take shape in secret sketches of Srijan. But soon, their ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Our Madhopur Home

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Told from the perspective of a dog Laura, Our Madhopur Home is a sprawling family saga about homes, displacement, and loss. Spanning three generations and a hundred years, it is a story of people, and it is a story of its times. As the patriarch of the family sees his children grow up and take different directions in their own lives, rural society in Bihar is also in a state of flux around him. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Restless Was the Night and Other Stories

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Easily one of the most towering figures of Bengali literature of the twentieth century, Buddhadev Bose was as prolific as he was versatile. A poet of renown, Bose was also an accomplished playwright, novelist, essayist and short-story writer. His prose is marked by invention, refreshing modernity and an easy yet deep engagement with timeless themes: love, the nature of memory, and the complexity ... Read more

    $3.35 USD

  • Tiger Woman

    Translated by Arunava Sinha ...
    Calcutta, 1880s.Nationalism is on the rise and the Bengali intellectuals are leading the protest against British rule in India. In this charged climate, ardent patriot Priyanath Bose prepares to set up the first Bengali circus.Soon he discovers an exceptional young girl, Sushila, and trains her to be a trapeze artist. As the circus flourishes and big animal acts are introduced, Sushila and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories

    by Various ...
    A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories'A splendid guide to unmapped lands… [Sinha] is one of the best living translators at work bringing the Bengali classics into English… he writes with exceptional elegance and wit' SpectatorThe prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly ... Read more

    $16.79 USD