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A review by apjck20
Sultana's Dream and Padmarag by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
5.0
5/5
fuck!!!!!!! IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN SIDDIKA/ZAINAB/PADMARAG!!!!
i love Indian literature and Feminist literature, then it is combined in a book like this with such heavy culture and diversity and passion and soul, and BAAM, im sold. This is a very very simple book, it consists of two stories first being a 15 paged story based on a utopian feminist country named Ladyland, and the second is heavily based on literal women's badassery and their rise from oppression in the 1920s(fictional ofc). The sexism has reduced of course but the resemblance to what it is now and what it was a century ago is uncanny. Talking about the language, the translation is very simple and beautiful, and it's not a sad book, it's a book of rising above but it just makes you cry for the most basic achievements. The story is intertwined perfectly with a reveal at the end.
fuck!!!!!!! IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN SIDDIKA/ZAINAB/PADMARAG!!!!
i love Indian literature and Feminist literature, then it is combined in a book like this with such heavy culture and diversity and passion and soul, and BAAM, im sold. This is a very very simple book, it consists of two stories first being a 15 paged story based on a utopian feminist country named Ladyland, and the second is heavily based on literal women's badassery and their rise from oppression in the 1920s(fictional ofc). The sexism has reduced of course but the resemblance to what it is now and what it was a century ago is uncanny. Talking about the language, the translation is very simple and beautiful, and it's not a sad book, it's a book of rising above but it just makes you cry for the most basic achievements. The story is intertwined perfectly with a reveal at the end.