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description: Winner of the Philips Literary Award in BangladeshThe Woman Who Flew (Urukkoo) tells the story of Nina a young woman who moves from small-town Bangladesh to the megacity of Dhaka where she soon finds herself divorced bereaved of her newborn and trapped in a mundane existence. Hungry for fresh air Nina strikes up a friendship with her mothers handsome ex-lover Irfan who encourages her to paint again. But as Nina tugs at her chains her sexually confused ex-husband Rezaul insinuates himself back into her life leaving her pregnant . . .Intense edgy and tinged with rage The Woman Who Flew lays bare the inner world of a woman beating her wings against a hostile conservative landscape.
language: English
title: The Woman Who Flew
publisher: None