My Father's Friend and Other Stories

Author: Ashokamitran
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126013478

Description

Ashokamitran published the collection of stories called Appavin Snehidar ( My Father's friend) in 1991. It is his tenth anthology of fiction, and brings together a short novel, a novella and nine short stories, all of which were written between 1990 and 1991. Ashokamitran writes in a spare and understated style about the changing cityscape in India today, and about the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in the tragic circumstances of every day life. All the stories are shot through with a comic vision that marks Ashokamitran's work and gives it its compassion.

Contents

Introduction

Author's preface

Festival Evening

Riddle

My father's Friend

Let Me Sleep in Peace Tonight

Colours

A Loan Application for Biplab Chaudhury

Hurt pride

At that Moment, the Bomb Went Off

Sylvia

Munir's Spanners

Inspector Shenbagaraman