{"product_id":"the-book-of-dhaka-a-city-in-short-fiction","title":"The Book of Dhaka: A City in Short Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDhaka may be one of the most densely-populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these street, often with Dhaka's trademark rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJust like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay trubute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been translated).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peace and Release HK Bookstore 中東伊斯蘭文化雜貨店","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43326092017766,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6125\/4246\/files\/IMG_7827.jpg?v=1758193598","url":"https:\/\/peaceandreleasehkbookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-dhaka-a-city-in-short-fiction","provider":"Peace and Release HK Bookstore 中東伊斯蘭文化雜貨店","version":"1.0","type":"link"}