Author: A Selection
Translator(s): Radha Chakravarty
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981393
Description
This collection of twenty powerful stories by writers from Bangladesh and India, reflect love and desire, laughter and tears, jealousy, greed, power, violence. These stories reverberate with myriad shades of emotion, exploring the depths of the human psyche.
Love and desire, laughter and tears, jealousy, greed, power, violence - these stories reverberate with myriad shades of emotion, exploring the depths of the human psyche. Tracing the lives of ordinary individuals as they grapple with forces larger than themselves, these narratives will leave an indelible impression.
Contents
BANGLADESH
Incognita
Secret Life, Public Death
Spent
A Mother-Daughter World
Alone, Together
Return, in the Moonlight
The Shape of Things
Irina's Picture
A View of Famine
Still Life
INDIA A Dream Day
Ranju's Blood
Raft
Amazing Light
Proprietor
Six Midibuses for Aditi
Wonderstory
Gangacharan's Champreng
Rainbow colors
Jamunaboti's Mother