Author: Ashokamitran
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126013478
Description
Ashokamitran published the collection of stories called Appavin Snehidar ( My Father's friend) in 1991. It is his tenth anthology of fiction, and brings together a short novel, a novella and nine short stories, all of which were written between 1990 and 1991. Ashokamitran writes in a spare and understated style about the changing cityscape in India today, and about the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in the tragic circumstances of every day life. All the stories are shot through with a comic vision that marks Ashokamitran's work and gives it its compassion.
Contents
Introduction
Author's preface
Festival Evening
Riddle
My father's Friend
Let Me Sleep in Peace Tonight
Colours
A Loan Application for Biplab Chaudhury
Hurt pride
At that Moment, the Bomb Went Off
Sylvia
Munir's Spanners
Inspector Shenbagaraman