Memoir books from Bangladesh
Recommended memoir books (3)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Bangladesh for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Banker To The Poor : Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Arou... continue
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Meyebela : My Bengali Girlhood by Tasalimā Nāsarina EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
This groundbreaking book throws open a window on a world unknown to most Westerners. Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years — from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen — in a small rural village during the years East Pakistan became Bangladesh. Set against the background of the fight for independence, Nasrin’s earliest memories alternate between scenes of violence and flight and images of innocent pleasures of childhood in her extended family. A precocious child, Nasrin’s acute awareness of the injustice and suffering endured by her mother and ot... continue
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Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh : Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.