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  title info:
    title: Shame
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Lajjā. English
  name:
    name part: Nāsarina, Tasalimā.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Religious fiction .
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Amherst, N.Y
    publisher: Prometheus Books
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ben
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 302 p. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent are centuries old. But when the 450-year-old Babri mosque in Ayodhya (southeast of Delhi) was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists in 1992, it let loose a worldwide wave of Muslim reprisals against all Hindus - a reign of terror that extended even to Bangladesh's small Hindu community.
  abstract: These incidents form the background to Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous novel, Shame (Lajja in Bengali), describing the nightmarish fate of one family. Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has a book provoked such mob violence, public outcries, and calls for the author's death. Following the initial appearance of Shame in Bangladesh, Dr. Nasrin was physically attacked and made the object of hate campaigns. Her book so angered Muslim leaders that they placed her under a fatwa, or holy judgment, offering thousands of dollars to anyone who would kill her. Dr. Nasrin went into hiding until, with the aid of American and European Union authorities, she was offered asylum in Sweden, where she currently lives. The fatwa, however, remains in effect.
  abstract: The novel's title, Lajja, bespeaks the author's shame at human degradation, her shame both for a government which could not protect the Hindu minority, and for her fellow citizens. It is the indictment of a nation - indeed, an entire religion. Dr. Nasrin calls Shame the "testament" of a writer determined, despite the danger she faces, to speak out in favor of Islamic reform, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression, and against Muslim extremism and other forms of fanaticism.
  note: Taslima Nasrin ; [translated from the Bengali by Kankabati Datta].
  subject:
    geographic code: a-bg---
  subject:
    topic: Religious fundamentalism
    geographic: Bangladesh
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Fanaticism
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Hindus
    geographic: Bangladesh
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Bangladesh
    topic: Fiction
  classification: PK1730.3.A65 L3513 1997
  classification: 891.4/437
  identifier: 1573921653
  identifier: 97027653 //r97
  location:
    physical location: CARM
  record info:
    record content source: TOC
    record creation date: 970816
    record change date: 19971208000000.0
    record identifier: c000161832
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng