Revenge: a fable
by Taslima Nasrin
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From the exiled Bangladeshi poet and internationally acclaimed author of Shame comes a delicious tale about getting even. In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue just as it did when they were dating. But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon's lavish family home, Jhumur is expected to play the role of a traditional Muslim wife: head covered, eyes averted, and unable to leave the house without an escort. When she becomes show more pregnant, Jhumur is shocked to discover that Haroon does not believe the baby is his, demanding an immediate termination of the pregnancy. Overwhelmed by his distrust, Jhumur plots her payback in the arms of a handsome and artistic neighbor. Readers the world over will eat up this cautionary tale of love, lust, and blood ties, delivered by the award-winning "voice of humanism everywhere" (Wole Soyinka). show lessTags
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Fantastic book! The plot is concise and still explores the lost of freedom that some women experience from marriage and are basically treated like a servant.
Very enjoyable and a fast read. I liked the idea of the story as a fable.
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- Canonical title
- Revenge: a fable
- Original title
- Śodha
- Original publication date
- 1992
- First words
- It's dawn and again my stomach is turning, an alien taste spiraling up through me until I feel it on my tongue, a sour dribble flooding my mouth.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the years since the birth of my son, I have been bathed with a contentment I could never have imagined.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 891.4 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Modern Indic languages
- LCC
- PK1730.3 .A65 .S6313 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Indo-Aryan languages Modern Indo-Aryan languages Particular languages and dialects Bengali
- BISAC
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- 58
- Popularity
- 531,505
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.69)
- Languages
- Bengali, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
