Author: Santosh Kumar Ghosh
Translator(s)/ Edito: Amitava Ray
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 132
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126021217
Description
As a short story writer, Santosh Kumar Ghosh is not well-known, perhaps, to the reader though he has left a sizable volume of this art form. The twelve short stories, selected from that corpus and translated into English, for the first time, deal with material and spiritual bankruptcy. The stories portray Calcutta (now Kolkata) of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century when famine-war-partition ruled hand-in-hand. His stories delved deep into the mind of people from different walks of life.
Contents
Introduction
1. Porcelain
2. Poison
3. A Love-Letter
4. Gilt
5. The Man Who Loved His wife
6. Holi
7. We Had Thought That
8. Two Rooms One Drama
9. Imitation
10. The Black Money of Love
11. The Wedding Anniversary
12. The Fear of Living