The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Painting & paintings She has created a fairy

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The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories Painting & paintings She has created a fairyA landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in English The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the form their own. By the twentieth century a profusion of literary magazines and journals meant they were being avidly read by millions. Writers responded to this hunger for words with a ferocious energy which reflected the turmoil of their times these stories covered