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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
- Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
Engelsk Paperback
Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
- Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
Engelsk Paperback

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“Brave and vivid.”—New York Review of BooksThese enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, and survival.   The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work together—not just to overcome the challenges of living in the Sundarban swamps of Bengal, but also to ease hostilities born of social differences in religion, caste, and economic class.   Translated by award-winning scholar of early modern Bengali literature Tony K. Stewart, Needle at the Bottom of the Sea brims with fantasy and excitement. Sufi protagonists travel through a world of wonder where tigers talk and men magically grow into giants, a Hindu princess falls in love with a Muslim holy man, and goddesses rub shoulders with kings and merchants. Across religion, class, and gender, what binds these fabulous stories together is the characters’ pursuit of living honorably and morally in a difficult, corrupt world.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
424
ISBN-13:
9780520388932
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520388933
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Udg. Dato:
7 mar 2023
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
7 mar 2023
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