සරාගිනියක නොවූ ගැහැනිය = the woman who flew
Jahan, Nasreen
සරාගිනියක නොවූ ගැහැනිය = the woman who flew - Mirigama Ashirwada 2017 - 435 p. 22 cm.
There was an old woman
Who flew in the basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon
Where she was going I want it to ask it
For under her arm, she carried a broom.
Oh woman, oh woman, oh woman said I
Where are you while flying so high?
To sweep out the star dust out of the sky.
And it will fall down on you by and by.
"[Tells] the story of Nina, a young woman who moves from small-town Bangladesh to the megacity of Dhaka, where she soon finds herself divorced, bereaved of her newborn and trapped in a mundane existence. Hungry for fresh air, Nina strikes up a friendship with her mothers handsome ex-lover, Irfan, who encourages her to paint again. But as Nina tugs at her chains, her sexually confused ex-husband, Rezaul, insinuates himself back into her life, leaving her pregnant
9789556972283
Fiction
Novel
Translation
Divorced women -- Bangladesh -- Fiction.
Divorced women
Dhaka (Bangladesh) -- Fiction.
823 / JAH
සරාගිනියක නොවූ ගැහැනිය = the woman who flew - Mirigama Ashirwada 2017 - 435 p. 22 cm.
There was an old woman
Who flew in the basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon
Where she was going I want it to ask it
For under her arm, she carried a broom.
Oh woman, oh woman, oh woman said I
Where are you while flying so high?
To sweep out the star dust out of the sky.
And it will fall down on you by and by.
"[Tells] the story of Nina, a young woman who moves from small-town Bangladesh to the megacity of Dhaka, where she soon finds herself divorced, bereaved of her newborn and trapped in a mundane existence. Hungry for fresh air, Nina strikes up a friendship with her mothers handsome ex-lover, Irfan, who encourages her to paint again. But as Nina tugs at her chains, her sexually confused ex-husband, Rezaul, insinuates himself back into her life, leaving her pregnant
9789556972283
Fiction
Novel
Translation
Divorced women -- Bangladesh -- Fiction.
Divorced women
Dhaka (Bangladesh) -- Fiction.
823 / JAH