Books set in Bangladesh (29)
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11.
Hacia un mundo sin pobreza by Muhammad Yunus ES
Country: Asia / 
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
"Hay cerca de mil trescientos millones de personas que viven en este planeta bajo el umbral de la pobreza. Con nuestro banco hemos empezado a disminuir esa cifra. No soy un banquero convencional; soy más bien un prestamista de esperanza." Muhammad Yunus. Yunus es una rara síntesis de racionalismo occidental y filosofía oriental. Vende ideas antiguas por siempre va buena fe, confianza, responsabilidad, solidaridad. Su teoría funciona en Bangladesh. Y si marcha bien allí, no hay más que imitarla.
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I Remember Abbu by Humayun Azad EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
A touching story of war, family, innocence, and memory from one of the top Bengali writers of all time. For the first time translated into English. Bangladesh, 1971: the war of independence from Pakistan has torn through peaceful villages and turned life upside down. In the midst of war, one young girl holds on as she discovers the world's unpredictability. During her father's prolonged absence, she reminisces about the essence of her abbu, an esteemed professor, loving community leader, and now unexpected warrior. She is moved by his quiet determination to preserve Bengali language and cultur... continue
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Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
Saad Z. Hossain's Kundo Wakes Up is a companion to the Ignyte and Locus Award-Nominated novella The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong—along with all its remaining residents—to continue its inexorable fall into the sea. Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous jou... continue
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Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
The Dattas have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being members of a small Hindu community, they refuse to leave the country. And then, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya is demolished by a mob of Hindu fundamentalists. The nightmare inevitably arrives at the Dattas' doorstep, and their world begins to fall apart.
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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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Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
Between husbands and wives, sometimes revenge is the best way to get even.
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Scham. Lajja by Taslima Nasrin DE
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
Belletristik : Bangladesh/Hindus ; Familie - Fundamentalismus - Islam.
18.
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6,1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh. These incidents form the backdrop for Dr. Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book, "Shame", describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.
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Shurjo's Clan by Iffat Nawaz EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
During the hours of daylight, young Shurjomukhi's family is like any other in Dhaka, going through the motions of school, work, and domesticity in a nation still in the flush of youth. But every night, once darkness falls over their asymmetrical house, they switch over to the Unknown world. Death does not exist in the Unknown side and the family is joined for dinner by Shurjo's freedom fighter uncles, who were martyred in the tea gardens of Sylhet at the start of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war, and her grandmother who killed herself by jumping into a well in the aftermath of 1947. These di... continue
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Sultana's Dream and Padmarag by Rokeya Hossain EN
Country: Asia / Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Description:
One of the first science-fiction utopian stories and one of the first feminist utopias by India’s widely celebrated, pioneering feminist, educator, writer, and activist Rokeya Hossain A Penguin Classics Edition Sultana, a Muslim woman living in contemporary India, falls asleep and wakes up in a transformed future world: a utopia in which men rather than women are relegated to the domestic sphere. Women, now free to explore the outside world at will and pursue an education, run a peaceful and just society, using scientific principles to harvest energy from the sun and live in harmony with natur... continue