{"product_id":"the-meat-market-ten-stories-and-a-novella-mashiul-alam-translated-by-shabnam-nadiya","title":"The Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella - Mashiul Alam (Translated by Shabnam Nadiya)","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eA masterclass in contemporary political fiction, dark realism, and the hyper-real. \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"83\"\u003eThe Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella\u003c\/i\u003e introduces English-language readers to the dazzling, uncompromising world of Mashiul Alam, one of Bangladesh’s most ingenious and world-class contemporary literary voices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003eRendered in sharp, precise prose by award-winning translator Shabnam Nadiya, this collection holds an unflinching mirror up to the blatant, daily horrors and immense tenderness of Bangladeshi society. Alam’s narratives effortlessly traverse the thin border between reality and the surreal. In these pages, a new mother's breasts dry up, forcing her baby to find an unexpected source of life in a village dog; an angel grants fifty takas to a child for sweets, only for a gambling father to snatch it away; a farmhand leaves for Dhaka to drive a rickshaw, leaving his wife to be pursued by a predatory neighbor; and a man is brutally slaughtered at a butcher’s shop in broad daylight simply for protesting the spiking of pure lamb meat with sheep and goat. From the gut-wrenching to the macabre, each story disrupts reader complacency, using heightened versions of plausible events as a means to cope with, sustain through, and critique modern structural violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003eHaving studied journalism in Moscow during the twilight of the Soviet Union and worked for decades at the leading Bengali daily \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"8\" data-index-in-node=\"128\"\u003eProthom Alo\u003c\/i\u003e, Mashiul Alam infuses his writing with an intense geopolitical and social awareness. The recipient of the prestigious PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant and the Himal Southasian Short Story Prize for the featured story ‘Milk’ (‘Doodh’), this masterfully curated anthology is a groundbreaking addition to South Asian translated literature—offering a stark, hauntingly beautiful exploration of humanity on the fringes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eWhy This Incisive South Asian Anthology Belongs on Your Shelf:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-path-to-node=\"10\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"10,0,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"10,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eAward-Winning Literary Brilliance:\u003c\/b\u003e Features the short story ‘Milk’ (winner of the Himal Southasian Short Story Prize) and backed by the prestigious PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"10,1,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"10,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eMaster of the Hyper-Real \u0026amp; Surreal:\u003c\/b\u003e Perfect for readers who appreciate fiction that blends stark, gritty realism with dark, absurd, and macabre twists to examine societal truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"10,2,0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"10,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eWorld-Class Translation:\u003c\/b\u003e Translated by Shabnam Nadiya, an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, ensuring the rhythmic cadence, biting political wit, and emotional gravity of the original Bengali text are perfectly preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"BEETLE BOOK SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52418296611099,"sku":null,"price":424.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/2150\/0699\/files\/81v2zUK0dfL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782718804","url":"https:\/\/beetlebookshop.com\/kn\/products\/the-meat-market-ten-stories-and-a-novella-mashiul-alam-translated-by-shabnam-nadiya","provider":"Beetle Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}