TY - BOOK AU - Jahan, Nasreen AU - Matiyagane, Gunathilaka TI - සරාගිනියක නොවූ ගැහැනිය = the woman who flew SN - 9789556972283 U1 - 823 PY - 2017/// CY - Mirigama PB - Ashirwada KW - Fiction KW - Novel KW - Translation KW - Divorced women -- Bangladesh -- Fiction. KW - Divorced women KW - Dhaka (Bangladesh) -- Fiction. N1 - 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. N2 - "[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 ER -