Book record
The Game in Reverse
Tasalimā Nāsarina
Translated from Bengali by Carolyne Wright
Taslima Nasrin’s The Game in Reverse, translated from Bengali by Carolyne Wright, brings a major Bangladeshi dissident writer into a compact poetic frame. Nasrin is often discussed through politics, exile, feminism, and controversy, but a book of poems asks the reader to begin again with language rather than reputation alone. The title suggests reversal, strategy, and the undoing of expected movement. A game in reverse may reveal the rules more clearly than the game played straight. Wright’s translation gives English-language readers access to a voice shaped by resistance without reducing the poems to slogans. I would read this as a book where gender, power, speech, and danger are never far from each other, but where the lyric remains alert to irony, vulnerability, and human cost.
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- Bengali
- Country
- Bangladesh