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In late 1992, a long-standing animosity reached a crisis when Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque in Ayodhya, India. Enraged Muslims responded with a protracted persecution of Hindus throughout the subcontinent. This work recounts that campaign of retaliatory terror as experienced by one Hindu family in Bangladesh and particularly its cynical, stubborn adult son, Suranjan, whose sister Maya is abducted and disappears in the near-chaos. The 1993 Bengali publication of Shame caused great controversy and resulted in a fatwa, or holy judgment, against author Nasrin, a Bengali of Muslim background. A seething indictment of oppression and religious fundamentalism couched precariously as a novel, this important work is impassioned but difficult to read. More reportage and protest than story, it is recommended more for its historic than its literary value. Purchase for larger collections.?Janet Ingraham, Worthington P.L., Ohio
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When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6,1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh. These incidents form the backdrop for Dr. Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book, Shame, describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.
