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The Open-Winged Scorpion: And Other Stories

By Abul Bashar, Epsita Halder (Translator)
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By Abul Bashar, Epsita Halder (Translator)
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The Open-Winged Scorpion and Other Stories is a collection of ten powerful Bengali short stories, all translated into English for the first time. Hailing from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, Abul Bashar pens stories about precarious lives of marginal Muslim communities in that district. His tales are shot through with the fears, dreams, hopes, and anxieties of the communities he portrays: their poverty and piety, the sensuality of the ancient mythologies they reimagine and remember, th...

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