Frozen Whites in a Dark Alley

Author: Himanshi Shelat
Translator(s)/ Edito: Vinod Meghani
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126024275

Description

The stories in this collection revolve around some poignant moments of ordinary life. They depict those little ironies of human existence that are quite familiar yet often remain unnoticed. Brevity, subtlety, simplicity and sensitivity are the most striking features of these stories.

Contents

1. Golden Fruit
2. Dis-location
3. A Woman in Love
4. An Eventful Day in
Manu-bhai’s Life
5. Homeward
6. Infatuation
7. A Stranger
8. The Death of a Man
9. Meditation
10. Relativity
11. At Ten-thirty
12. Hands
13. A Good Friend Named Ashwin
14. The Curtain
15. Years Hence
16. Sundar, Amruta and the Tree
17. Only until Yesterday
18. Mansukh
19. On a Rainy Day
20. Losing Game
21. Waiting for something to happen,
At Thirty-six
22. Frozen whites in a Dark Alley
23. Mr. A.Sukumar/Amar