Lajja: Shame by Taslima Nasrin (Vintage 1993 Edition)

by Taslima Nasrin (Author)

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Lajja is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja means “shame” in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages. This book is translated from Bengali to English by Tutul Gupta.

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The Duttas – Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya – have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being part of the country’s small Hindu community, that is terrorized at every opportunity by Muslim fundamentalists, they refuse to leave their country, as most of their friends and relatives have done.

Sudhamoy, an atheist, believes with a naive mix of optimism and idealism that his motherland will not let him down.

And then, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India is demolished by a mob of Hindu fundamentalists. The world condemns the incident but its fallout is felt most acutely in Bangladesh, where Muslim mobs begin to seek out and attack the Hindus…

The nightmare inevitably arrives at the Duttas’ doorstep – and their world begins to fall apart.

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Weight 193 g
Dimensions 13.3 × 20.5 × 1.1 cm
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Edition / Series

Vintage 1993 Edition

ISBN

0140240519

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Pages

216

Published

1993

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