Escape From Fanaticism
Nasrin was unknown in the United States until recently: she writes in Bengali, and although her latest novel, “Lajja” (“Shame”), has been translated into English, it is not yet available here. But at home she has been notorious for years. A newspaper columnist and the author of 21 books, she has been married and divorced three times. Her columns demanding women’s rights are blunt; and in her fiction and poetry, she writes about women’s sexuality in terms so explicit even some Bangladeshi feminists recoil....