Author: Jayakanthan
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Dr K S Subramanian
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 145
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788189020750
Description
From the winner of the prestigious Jnanpith Award, here are stories remarkable for their emotional honesty, by turns tender, intense and lyrical. They show us characters caught in impossible compromises with life, even as they hold fast to their illusions. Like Ranji who cannot consummate her marriage for want of a roof over her head; or Meena who we weaves her desires and discontent into exquisite and intricate patterns for her eyes alone.Jayakanthan’s canvas is real, his pen subtle and ironic. A writer of uncommon insight quietly subversive
COMMENTS
‘‘Jayakanthan’s Literature is an authentic and vivid index of India reality’’.
Jananpith Award citation
‘‘An outstanding oeuvre that reflected the travails of the downtrodden and challenged the belief system of the middle class.’’
FRONTLINE
Contents
Wedlock
Treadle
Cover
Dissonance
When Epochs Meet
IN A Daytime Passenger Train
Trial By Fire
Patterns within Bounds
By The Window
A House Remains Locked