The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction

Disappearing corpses. Scientists who are spies.Maniacal murderers. Brooding, remorseless detectives.ove triangles and murders. A robot that falls inove. Secrets of the dead and the departed. Sex, romance and betrayal. All these and more are to be found in these eight novellas and stories featuring spies, criminals, ghosts, black-magic practitioners and, of course, femmes fatales. These are the finest examples of aong tradition of pulp fiction that has alwaysurked in dark corners within the hallowed precincts of Bengaliiterature.Written by brilliant mainstream as well as pulp fiction writers from India and Bangladesh, including Premendra Mitra, Satyajit Ray, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Gobindolal Bandyopadhyay and the redoubtable Swapan Kumar, the stories in The Moving Shadow: Electrifying Bengali Pulp Fiction give the reader a dazzling introduction to noir from theand of the bhodrolok.

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Over forty of his translations have been published so far. He has selected and translated the bestselling The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told. He has won the Crossword Translation Award for Sankar’ s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’ s Seventeen (2001).He has also won the Muse India Award for his translation for When the Time is Right (2012). His translation of Chowringhee was shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2009). His translations have also been published in the UK, US, Europe and Asia through further translation.He grew up in Kolkata and lives in New Delhi.