Check in every Thursday for a new set of five! Today we have Prothom Protishruti by Ashapurna Debi and Aranyer Adhikar by Mahasweta Devi among others.
Deshe Bideshe by Syed Mujtaba Ali
Translated as In a Land Far from Home by Nazes Afroz
The author's debut work is a humorous memoir describing his experiences in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, across a span of two years in the late-1930s.
Na Hanyate by Maitreyi Devi
Written in response to the Romanian philosopher, Mircea Eliade's book La Nuit Bengali, or Bengal Nights, the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel captures a romance that battles cultural divide.
Prothom Protishruti by Ashapurna Debi
Translated as The First Promise by Indira Chowdhury
Considered to be Debi's magnum opus, the novel follows Satyabati, a girl who is married off at the tender age of eight, and goes on to fight against familial violence and social prejudices.
Pagla Dashu by Sukumar Roy
One of the many characters created by Roy, all of whom were a result of, as he himself put it, kheyal ros, or whims and fancies. Dashu, or Dasharathi, is a schoolboy who enjoys pranking boastful characters.
Aranyer Adhikar by Mahasweta Devi
Devi, who was a fiery advocate for the rights of adivasis, follows the life and struggle of Birsa Munda, the tribal freedom fighter, in this novel.
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