Detached belonging
Dilruba Z. Ara (Author)
"Twelve stories set in Bangladesh, Sweden and the Middle East. A young Bangladeshi mother loses her newborn in a European hospital, then has to assert her religious identity in an alien environment. A diaspora Bangladeshi returns home to the full force of culture shock as she confronts a tradition-bound Imam who appears to hamper her wish to tend her father's grave. A respectable Bangladeshi man sexually abuses his maidservant. A five-year-old girl in the time of the Lebanese Civil War kills her brother... Detached Belonging is an assortment of accounts of human lives. In each story of this collection Ara reveals the bizarre that lies beneath the ordinary - all with her characteristic poise and grace." --Dust jacket
Print Book, English, 2016
University Press Limited, Bangladesh, 2016