Do you have Arjun’s book recommendation on your June list?
The anthology has several noteworthy works translated from Bengali to English for literature lovers
Published 27.05.24, 09:12 AM
Image courtesy: @arjunchakrabarty/Instagram
If you want to dive deeper into Bengali literature
but language is a barrier, there are good translated works that come to the
rescue. For instance, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories, an
anthology edited by Arunava Sinha, is one book that has to be on your reading
list and your library. And guess who else is reading it? Tollywood actor Arjun
Chakrabarty.
Arjun recently took to Instagram recommending the
book. “...It is a brilliantly compiled collection of masterful translations
that makes you wonder how much literature, how much wonder, how many treasures
we miss out on, solely because we speak and/or read a limited number of
languages…” the reader wrote.
About the book, The Penguin Book of Bengali
Short Stories cover wars, refugee crisis, love, famine, patriarchy to
Partition and more, uncovering stories covering a century’s work.
