A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated stories 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 an
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
โ Scribed by Arunava Sinha
- Book ID
- 115247513
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House UK
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 538 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780241562635
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