Revenge

By Taslima Nasrin

Nasrin’s personal views and writings on sex, women’s rights, and Islam have ignited controversy in her native Bangladesh, India, and abroad since the 1990s. Although multiple fatwa have been issued against her life, Nasrin fearlessly writes about the devastating oppression that women face and the ways in which they resist the traditions that confine them. A page-turner, Revenge is also a piercing social commentary on the hypocrisies of the traditional roles of husband and wife, and the power – or lack of it – built into them. Nasrin has won many awards, including the inaugural Simone de Beauvoir prize for women’s human rights. She is internationally recognized: she has held fellowships at Harvard and NYU, received doctorates from France and Belgium, and been awarded literary and/or human rights awards from the US, UK, India, Bangladesh, France, Sweden, Norway, and Belgium. Her books have been banned in Bangladesh and West Bengal, and partly censored in the rest of India; Revenge will be one of her few works available in the United States. Nasrin is available to tour and for media appearances, interviews, etc. This is the controversial book that started the chain reaction to Nasrin’s forced departure from India (following her exile from Bangladesh): after Nasrin was physically attacked by a mob of fundamentalists during a book launch for the Telugu translation of Revenge, protesters against Nasrin rioted in the streets of Kolkata and an old fatwa offering an unlimited amount of money to anyone who would kill her was reinstated.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
• Release date: Sep 7, 2010
• ISBN: 9781558616899

Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi writer, feminist, secular humanist, and human rights activist. Most famous for her feminist writings, Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994, when she was expelled from Bangladesh for the publication of Shame (Lajja) which was critical of Islam. Her works include My Bengali Girlhood, All About Women, Fallen Prose of A Fallen Girl, The Opponent, Tell Him The Secret, Shame Again, and Getting Even. Nasrin has been the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, and an honorary doctorate from the American University of Paris, among many other important recognitions.

Reviews for Revenge

[wellreadcatlady · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic book! The plot is concise and still explores the lost of freedom that some women experience from marriage and are basically treated like a servant.