House of Cards & Other Stories

Author: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Translator(s): Sanchayita Chatterjee
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 130
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129103842

Description

The House of Cards & Other Stories is a translation of some of Tarashankar Bandopadhyay's best short stories which showcase man's deepest and most basic instincts. Love, lust, envy, pride, survival instinct, the corrupting influence of power-every facet of human character is explored.

And it is exactly that which enables these stories to cross boundaries of time and space. The characters might be the poor people of Birbhum but the emotions are universal.

Contents

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

HOUSE OF CARDS
Tasher Ghar

AFFLICTION OF THE GODS
Debota-R Byadhi

THE WITCH
Daini

SNAKE AND SHE
Nari O Nagini

TARINI, THE BOATMAN
Tarini Majhi

NO
(Na)

FOOTNOTES