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Three sides of life : short stories by Bengali women writers / Ashapurna Devi ... [and others] ; edited by Saumitra Chakravarty ; with an introduction by Tutun Mukherjee.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Bengali
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Bengali--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Bengali.
- Bengali fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
- Bengali fiction.
- Short stories, Bengali--Women authors.
- Women authors.
- Genre:
- Short stories, Bengali.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 195 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- This selection of fifteen stories by five of the best-known Bengali women writers (Ashapurna Devi, Mahashweta Devi, Bani Basu, Suchitra Bhattacharya, and Nabaneeta DebSen) looks at the lives of those women who are neither stars nor martyrs in the feminist cause. They are voices, individual and particular, and women leading their everyday lives, nursing their joys and sorrows.
- Contents:
- 1 Dhouli / Mahasweta Devi 1
- 2 The Divorce / Mahasweta Devi 26
- 3 Love Story / Mahasweta Devi 32
- 4 The Kayak / Nabaneeta Dev Sen 44
- 5 The Aftermath / Nabaneeta Dev Sen 57
- 6 And the Rains Came Again / Nabaneeta Dev Sen 68
- 7 Please Forgive Me / Ashapurna Devi 85
- 8 The Red Saree / Ashapurna Devi 94
- 9 Padmalata's Dream / Ashapurna Devi 100
- 10 Shirish / Bani Basu 112
- 11 The Call of the Sea / Bani Basu 121
- 12 Her Own Seat / Bani Basu 137
- 13 The Indir Thakuruns / Suchitra Bhattacharya 151
- 14 Bonds / Suchitra Bhattacharya 163
- 15 The Testament of Madhobi / Suchitra Bhattacharya 178.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxvi).
- ISBN:
- 9780195685855
- 0195685857
- OCLC:
- 122529936
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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