Author: Deepa Agarwal
Publisher: Srishti
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 174
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187075880
Description
Stories in this book span a wide range of human experience and light up dark corners of our lives with intensity and candor. Each of the characters in the book has been drawn with thought and care so that each one is well rounded and real.
Can the gulf between dream and reality ever be bridged? This question haunts many of the characters in this collection of stories by Deepa Agarwal. ‘If the Earth Should Move…’ displays a deep insight into the inner world of women. Women trapped in the web of circumstance, their space restricted by social mores that prevent their dreams from taking concrete shape, who still manage to find alternatives.
Often it is the past that serves to define the present, in stories like ‘Cradle Song, Doorways without Doors and Why did you Kill Mahatma Gandhi?’ Sometimes myths are exploded and bonds thrown off as in ‘The jeweled Serpent, or horrifying truths emerge as in ‘The House of Cards’. Compelling, disturbing, thought provoking, these stories span a wide range of human experience and light up dark corners of our lives with intensity and candor.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS:
Landscapes, people, plants and animal are presented in a vivid and readable manner. Each of the characters in the book has been drawn with thought and care, so that each one is well rounded and real.
- Monisha Mukundan, Book Review
Contents
Cradle Song
The Crossing
The Back Verandah
The Jewelled Serpent
Visitor’s Hour
Why did you kill Mahatma Gandhi?
House of Cards
The Follower
You Cannot Have all the Answers
The Abortion
If the Earth should Move…
The Stuff of Dreams
Icarus Reborn
Doorways Without Doors.