Talashnama: The Quest - Softcover

Darbesh, Ismail; Ramaswamy, V

 
9789354898952: Talashnama: The Quest

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Set in Sadnahati a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal Talashnama is the story of Riziya an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past.

Hounded by a devastating secret Riziya elopes with her tutor Suman Nath a Hindu although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On th...

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ismail Darbesh was born in an ‘ostagar' or traditional garment-maker family, and completed his schooling at Tentulkuli High School and Makardaha Bamasundari Institution, after which he attended Narsingha Dutta College in Howrah and graduated with Honours in Bengali.

V. Ramaswamy has translated Subimal Misra's The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-Stories, This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels, and The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories; Shahidul Zahir's Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas.

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