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Library Journal: In late 1992,
a long-standing animosity reached a crisis when Hindu
extremists destroyed a mosque in Ayodhya, India. Enraged
Muslims responded with a protracted persecution of Hindus
throughout the subcontinent. Her novel, Shame, recounts
that campaign of retaliatory terror as experienced by one
Hindu family in Bangladesh and particularly its cynical,
stubborn adult son, Suranjan, whose sister Maya is abducted
and disappears in the near-chaos. Its 1993 Bengali publication
caused great controversy and resulted in a fatwa, or holy
judgment, against author Nasrin, a Bengali of Muslim
background.
Nasrin (also spelled Nasreen) has written over 30 books, many that are poetry and difficult to obtain in the United States. Following are two.
(New
Delhi,
Rupa & Co, 64 pages,
paperback, 2005)
• limited quantity
available
Artwork
by Rabindranath Tagore
Editing
by Warren Allen Smith
Poems
translated from the original Bengali by the poet
$15.00
Love
Poems of Taslima Nasreen (New
Delhi,
Rupa & Co., 46 pages,
paperback, 2005)
• limited quantity
available
Translated
from the Bengali by Ashim Chowdhury
Editing
by Warren Allen Smith
Smith,
Warren Allen Celebrities in Hell *
•
Biographical listings of contemporaries who are freethinking
$40.00 (NY: chelCbooks, 2010), 2nd Edition, 400 pages)
Cruising
the Deuce
- written under pseudonym
of Allen Windsor •
Contains never-before-revealed X-rated descriptions of why
42nd
Gossip
From Across the Pond
•
European columns written by Smith, a New Yorker, about gays
in
$25.00 (NY:
chelCbooks, 2010, 158 pages),
re-issue, paperback
In
the Heart of Showbiz, A Biographical Triography
• An
autobiography of Warren Allen Smith, except that his
biography
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