Author: Kai Frise
Mukul Kesavan/
Publisher: IndiaInk
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 202
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186939105
Description
This volume carries the best and most diverse collection of new short fiction from Indian writers. It also features exceptional non-fiction.
This Volume of Civil Lines 5 carries the best and most diverse collection of new short fiction from Indian writers that you are likely to read: a total of seven stories by Amit Chaudhuri, Amitava Kumar, Avtar Singh, Mina Kumar and Suketu Mehta.
Civil Lines 5 also features exceptional non-fiction. Sonia Jabbar gives us an account of life and death in Kashmir, and Urvashi Butalia literally revisits Partition: brilliant hybrid narratives, part essay, part travelogue, that make places and histories come alive with vividly realized people and their tragedies. And Anita Roy reminds us, funnily and poignantly, that all writers begin as obsessive readers.
PRAISE FOR CIVIL LINES 4
Superbly written, tightly edited. - The Statesman
A heady charge for readers and writers alike - Biblio
Not a single line of dullness - Deccan Herald
The editors know good English when the read it - The Book Review
Contents
Introduction
SONIA JABBAR
Spirit of Place
MINA KUMAR
Reading
Water
AMIT CHOUDHURI
The Old Masters
Prelude an Autobiography
SUKETU MEHTA
Sexual History of an Accountant
AMITAVA KUMAR
Indian Restaurant
AVTAR SINGH
Infected
ANITA ROY
Harold and Me
URVASHI BUTALIA
The Persistence of Memory
Notes on contributors