Author: Rana Nayar
Translator: Rana Nayar
Publisher: Sterling
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 193
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9694941245
Description
The first ever anthology of some of the best of Punjabi short fiction, this translated work tells its own tale of the Punjabi immigrant community's valiant struggle in the UK for a cohesive identity.
The first ever anthology of some of the best of Punjabi short fiction, this translated work tells its own tale of the Punjabi immigrant community's valiant struggle in the UK for a cohesive identity.
Rich and resonant, powerful and evocative, the stories abound in images of displacement, at once unsettling and captivating. Though immigration and displacement make up the main thematic tapestry, each story struggles to create its own distinctive metaphor of exclusion and marginality, physical and psychological, all at once.
For here are the exiles, the migrants, the eternal pilgrims of time and space, who are, forever, forced into negotiating a double space, the "in-betweenness", and who tend to make insistent claims upon the reader's imagination as well as his catholic sympathies.
Constantly swinging back and forth across two worlds, one lost and the other yet to be gained, these stories jostle with our hopes, aspirations, disappointments and despair as much as they bring alive the complexity of what it means to be an outsider.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
KAILASH PURI
Behind Open Doors
RAGHUBIR DHAND
The Dustbin
DARSHAN DHEER
A Nest of Straw
PRITAM SIDHU
In the Distant Lands..
SHIVCHARAN GILL
Samskaras
GURDIAL SINGH RAI
The Daughter of Five
BALDEV SINGH
A Wicked Girl
SURJIT KAUR KALPANA
Two Long Years!
TARSEM NEELGIRI
The Divided Shores
SWARAN CHANDAN
The Story That Never Was !
AVTAR SADIQ
A Relationship of Fragrance
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GURNAM GILL
Trees in Kew Gardens
HARJIT ATWAL
The Smoke
GURBAKSH KAUR DOSANJIH
Shifting Sands
GURDEEP PURI
Crazy for Pounds
VEENA VERMA
A Soiled Sheet