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“taslima nasrin”

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  • Revenge

    A Fable

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Translated by Honor Moore ...
    From the exiled Bangladeshi poet and internationally acclaimed author of Shame comes a delicious tale about getting even.In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue just as it did when they were dating. But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon's lavish family home, Jhumur is expected to play the role of a traditional Muslim wife: head ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taslima Unbound

    Writings on Feminism, Secularism, and Human Rights

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin brings together for the first time in English a compelling collection of her work written over a period of thirty years. In this powerful selection of essays, Taslima confronts issues of women’s oppression and gender inequality, freedom of speech, and religious violence. In bold, pragmatic style, her language of protest challenges the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lajja

    Now with a new author's note

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Translated by Anchita Ghatak ...
    A savage indictment of religious extremism and man's inhumanity to man, Lajja was banned in Bangladesh but became a bestseller in the rest of the world. This brand-new translation marks the twentieth anniversary of this controversial novel. The Dattas Sudhamoy and Kironmoyee and their children, Suronjon and Maya have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being members of a small Hindu ... Read more

    $4.59 USD

  • My Girlhood

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Set in the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, this book recollects Taslima Nasrin's early years. From her birth on a holy day to the dawn of womanhood at fourteen to her earliest memories that alternate between scenes of violence, memories of her pious mother, the rise of religious fundamentalism, the trauma of molestation and the beginning of a journey that redefined her world, My ... Read more

    $4.59 USD

  • Burning Roses in My Garden

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Have I not, having kept a man for years, learnt that it's/ like raising a snake?/ So many animals on this earth, why keep a man of all things?' writes one of the world's most celebrated writers, Taslima Nasrin, in her first-ever comprehensive collection of poetry translated from the original Bangla into English. The poems get to the heart of being the other in exile, justifying one's place in a ... Read more

    $3.35 USD

  • Exile

    A Memoir: Now with a New Introduction

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Translated by Maharghya Chakraborty ...
    On 21 November 2007, the city of Kolkata came to a rude, screeching halt as a virulent mob of religious fanatics took to the streets. Armed with a fatwa from their ideologues, the mob demanded that Taslima Nasrin leave the city immediately. While the Kolkata Police stood watching, mere dumb witnesses to such hooliganism, a morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt Left Front government, ... Read more

    $4.19 USD

  • Shame

    A Novel

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Not since Salman Rushdie''s Satanic Verses has the publication of a book provoked such mob violence, public outcries for the arrest and death of the author, and international efforts to secure her safety. The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lajja

    by Taslima Nasrin ...
    Narrated by Mala Mangla ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    A savage indictment of religious extremism and man's inhumanity to man, Lajja was banned in Bangladesh but became a bestseller in the rest of the world. This brand-new translation marks the twentieth anniversary of this controversial novel. The Dattas Sudhamoy and Kironmoyee and their children, Suronjon and Maya have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being members of a small Hindu ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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