Shaheen Akhtar

Wasi Ahmed

Moinul Ahsan Saber

Salma Bani

Bipradash Barua

Akhteruzzaman Elias

Parvez Hossain

Syed Manzoorul Islam

Rashida Sultana

Anwara Syed Haq

Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, often with Dhaka's famous rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been translated).

A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Dhaka

Salma Bani

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