Author: Eminent Contributors
Translator(s): Paul St-Pierre /Leelawati Mohapatra/K K Mohapatra
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172234589
Description
An anthology of twenty-two of the best Oriya short stories written over the last hundred years. Some of the stories are formal experiments in storytelling while others are rooted in real-life situations and events.
And still others portray the lives of ordinary people caught up in the intricacies of living.
Village life dominates the stories, not in a reduced and simplified form, but rather in all its complexity, and even cruelty at times, with its relationships traversed by hierarchy, caste, religion, and economic and social differences.
An evocative collection, which bears witness to the transformation and continuity of life, values and the specificity of culture of this eastern coastal state.
REVIEW
The translators seem to have legitimately taken on much of the burden of opening doors of Oriya literature to the non-Oriya reader.
-Hindustan Times
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PATHFINDER
FAKIR MOHAN SENAPATI
Patent Medicine
Ananta, the Widow’s Brat
FRONTIERSMEN
UPENDRA KISHORE DAS
Witch’s Light
KALINDI CHARAN PANIGRAHI
The PS
GOPINATH MOHANTY
Ants
FATURANAND
The Snake God
SATCHIDANANDA RAUT ROY
Penance
BHUBANESWAR BEHERA
The Gulmohur Tree Goddess
Consolidators
SURENDRA MOHANTY
The Nayanpur Express
KISHORI CHARAN DAS
Night Dogs
MOHAPATRA NILAMONI SAHOO
Delirium
CHANDRASEKHAR RATH
Yayati
SANTANU KUMAR ACHARYA
The Visitor
MANOJ DAS
Goodbye, Darling Ghost
CHAUDHRY HEMAKANTA MISHRA
The Stench
AMONG THE INHERITORS
JAGANNATH PRASAD DAS
The Interlude
BIJAY PRASAD MAHAPATRA
The Magic Ring
AKSHAY MOHANTY
The Stammerer
NRUSINGHA TRIPATHY
Listening to Bhikari Bal, One Night
KANHAILAL DAS
Paperweight
KAMALAKANTA MOHAPATRA
A Funeral Feast
PRADIPTA KUMAR MISHRA
God is Blind
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