Bait : Four Stories/Mahasweta Devi. Translated by Sumanta Banerjee.
New Delhi, Seagull Books, 2004, xxii, 80 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-211-8.
Bait : Four Stories/Mahasweta Devi. Translated by Sumanta Banerjee.
New Delhi, Seagull Books, 2004, xxii, 80 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-7046-211-8.
Contents: Translators note. 1. Fisherman/Dheebar. 2. Knife/Chhuri. 3. Body/Shareer. 4. Killer/Ghatak. 5. Glossary.
"The four Stories in this collection are located in the urban and suburban underworld, and form an unusual segment of Mahasweta Devi's oeuvre -- 'Fisherman' (about Jagat who recovers bodies of young boys from the village tank so that the police can pass them off as cases of drowning), 'knife' (a tongue-in-check account of gang warfare in a suburban town of West Bengal, bordering Bangladesh), 'Body' (about a 'young woman', used by a politician and his cohorts until she makes her own protest against the exploitative establishment) and 'Killer' (in which Sona Alias Akhil, an unemployed middle-class youth, discovers himself after his first 'Test' killing)." (jacket)