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Twelve stories are set in Bangladesh, Sweden and the Middle East. A young Bangladeshi mother loses her newborn in a European hospital and then has to assert her religious identity in an alien environment. A diaspora Bangladeshi returns home to the full force of culture shock as she confronts the tradition-bound Imam who appears to hamper her wish to tend her father’s grave. A respectable Bangladeshi man sexually abuses his maidservant. A five-year-old girl in time of the Lebanese Civil War kills her brother. Detached Belonging is an assortment of accounts of human lives. Ara reveals the bizarre that lies beneath the ordinary ‒ all with her characteristic poise and grace.
Dilruba Z. Ara
A graduate of Gothenburg University, Sweden, Dilruba Z. Ara is the author of the internationally acclaimed novel A List of Offences. Ara’s stories ‒ published in many international anthologies ‒ are studied at universities across the world. She has translated Selected Stories of Shahed Ali into English and some of Sweden’s Pippi Longstocking stories into Bengali. She lives in Lund, Sweden.
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