About the Book: Penguin Book Of Bengali Short Stories
A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many
previously untranslated stories
The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and
Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twentieth century a
profusion of literary magazines and journals meant they were being avidly read
by millions.
Writers responded to this hunger for words with a ferocious energy which
reflected the turmoil of their times: these stories covered land wars, famine,
the caste system, religious conflict, patriarchy, Partition and the liberation
war that saw the emergence of the independent country of