Hellfire / Leesa Gazi ; translated from the Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gājī, Līsā, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Nadiya, Shabnam, translator.

Rosengarten International Fund.

Standardized Title:

Rourob. English

Language:

Bengali

English

Subjects (All):

Bengali fiction--Translations into English.

Bengali fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Translations.

Physical Description:

197 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Chennai : Eka, 2020.

Summary:

"The holy Prophet received his revelations from the Creator at forty. Which meant that even in the eyes of Allah, 'forty' held some special meaning. Something special happened at forty, something special was going to happen. For the sisters Lovely and Beauty, home is a cage. Their mother Farida Khanam never lets them out of her hawk-eyed gaze. Leesa Gazi's Hellfire opens with Lovely's first ever solo expedition to Gausia Market on her fortieth birthday. There will be many firsts for her today, but she mustn't forget the curfew Farida Khanam has ordained. As Lovely roams the streets of Dhaka, her mother's carefully constructed world begins to unravel. The twisted but working arrangements of a fragile household begin to assume a macabre quality as the day progresses. Told in stark, taut prose, this grisly tale of a family born of a dark secret is one of the most scintillating debuts in contemporary Bengali literature."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

"First published in Bengali as Rourob in 2010 by Sucheepatra."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten International Fund.

ISBN:

9789389648416

9389648416

OCLC:

1243906710