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Shame (Hardcover)
by Taslima Nasrin (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books (Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573921653
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573921657
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 410,229 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Follows the Dutta family, part of Bangladesh's Hindu minority, as they deal with the religious intolerance that plagues their home.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping, effectively written, novel., 28 May 1999
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This novel only became known in the West because of the fatwa on the author. Yet, because of this, all the attention has been on the author herself rather than the book. The few comments about the novel that have been published tend to be rather dismissive about it. People says its "hastily written" and "unimaginative". I bought the book just to see whether it was any good as a novel. I found that it certainly wasn't flawless. But I also found it was gripping. I kept turning the pages to see how the story would develop. The pages of documentary evidence did get in the way - but it was precisely because I wanted the story to progress that I found them intrusive. I suspect that some of the negative comment on the novel is simply because many people like their art to be refined and apolitical. "Shame" is, after all, realism: and although it is somewhat "unimaginative", that isn't necessarily an insuperable charge for a work of realism - which is more interested in such issues as truth and unflinching fidelity. In any case, there is an essential imaginativeness here - one to do with empathy - that, the book implies, is altogether lacking in a lot of other people. Indeed, the book shows that a little imagination can go a long way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a universal story of pe