Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the
world.This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories
is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in
their writings. It includes stories about the 1971 War of Liberation, women s
honour , mother-daughter relationships, the vagaries of marriage and
contemporary political corruption.Well established women writers such as Selina
Hossain and Nasreen Jahan are represented here, along with emerging writers, the
better to evoke the broad range of Bangladeshi women s literary voices. Daring
in both form and theme, these stories reveal the exciting transformation that
fiction writing is currently experiencing on the