This book is a collection of fifteen remarkable Bangla stories in English translation. It will help make some remarkable writers of Bangla short fiction available to those who have no access to the original. It has translations of stories by Jagadish Gupta, Jyotirindra Nandy, Subodh Ghose, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Satinath Bhaduri, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Ramapada Chaudhuri, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Moti Nandy, Narendranath Mitra, Banaphool, Prashuram, Ashapurna Devi, Shibram Chakraborty and Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay.