The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Penguin Black Classics

The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories (Penguin Classics) is a landmark anthology that gathers a century of Bengali short fiction in English, including many stories translated for the first time. Beginning with the arrival of the prose short story in Bengal in the wake of British colonization, it showcases how writers made the form their own, responding with ferocious energy to the upheavals of their times land wars, famine, caste oppression, religious conflict, patriarchy, Partition and the liberation war that led to Bangladesh while also experimenting with social realism, political fiction and intimate domestic tales.