Dear Jester and Other Stories

Author: J P Das
Translator(s): Rabindra K Swain and Paul St Pierre
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 181
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129103931

Description

These stories have been translated from the author’s award-winning Oriya collection, where characters are implicated in relationships they neither control nor fully understand.

A husband’s discovery leads him to doubt whether he ever truly knew his wife. A daughter’s marriage concretises a rupture begun long before with her parents attempts to have control over her life. A writer confronts his need for recognition and ponders the nature of true success.

Relationships here are paradoxical, never simple, often confining or disappointing, at times liberating, strongest when opposition to their realization exists, disappearing as the obstacles fall away.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

The Illusions of Success
Our Daughter’s Happiness
The Inevitable
The Intimate Stranger
The Furlough
The Outsider
Homeless
Radha
The Homecoming
The Bystandey
The Ultimatum
Dear Jester