The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories by Arunava Sinha (Editor) [Hardcover]

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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, and is astonishingly productive.’ – The Spectator

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