A Quiet Violence
View from a Bangladesh Village

Publisher:  Zed
Pages:  304pp   ISBN:  0-86232-172-7
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX18883

In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There the reader meets some of the world's poorest people, and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. This book describes the quiet violence of needless hunger.

Subject Headings

• Bangladesh
• Peasants
• Poverty
• Villages