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Book Synopsis Paradise and Other Stories by : Khushwant Singh
Download or read book Paradise and Other Stories written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Balzac could not have done better’ —The Financial Express In this sparkling collection of stories, India’s best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles? Can a horoscope guarantee the perfect wife? Is the Kamasutra a useful manual for newlyweds? Margaret Bloom arrives in Haridwar from New York to save her soul. But she soon discovers that there are temptations even on the banks of the holy Ganga. Madan Mohan Pandey, amateur astrologer and scholar of ancient Hindu texts, finds to his horror that his doe-like bride is not quite what he had expected. Pious Zora Singh, Pride of the Nation, rumoured to be a chaar sau bees and a womanizer, silences his detractors by earning the Bharat Ratna. Devi Lal makes his peace with a fickle God when his daughter-in-law delivers a son, following secret visits to the Peer Sahib’s tomb. And Vijay Lall, emboldened by his miraculous escape from death, decides to act upon his silent obsession with Karuna Chaudhury, which takes him to a shifty soothsayer behind the Khan Market loo. Khushwant Singh returns to the short story after decades to deliver a truly memorable collection—humorous, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, ribald and even, at times, tender.
Book Synopsis The Dead Camel and Others Stories of Love by : Parvati Sharma
Download or read book The Dead Camel and Others Stories of Love written by Parvati Sharma and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which an uncast ballot precipitates social embarrassment and recalls a past love, a young housewife finds her kitchen plagued by unabashed canoodling in the flat next door, an aspiring novelist tries to forget near-manslaughter, a schoolgirl discovers the travails of depilation, and, in a locked room, two medieval noblewomen recount the amorous avowals of a young soldier. There’s also the small matter of a dead camel lying unattended on the streets of Delhi. These twelve stories explore the unsaid, the unfinished and the misunderstood, the shocks and nuances of love and sexuality, responsibility and ambition, and our tentative attempts to peel away the layers of stories that make up our lives. “Beautifully precise writing. These stories capture people with such exactitude that you know they must come from a serious student of life. But this is one of those serious books at which you never stop laughing, for Parvati Sharma’s sense of the world is lively, generous and wickedly original.” — Rana Dasgupta, author of Solo Published by Zubaan.
Book Synopsis Ajji And Other Stories by : Vinoda Revannasiddaiah
Download or read book Ajji And Other Stories written by Vinoda Revannasiddaiah and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vinoda believes in the power of the writer in translating the finest human emotions and sensibilities into language. Particular situations and the response of individuals to them constitute the crux of Vinoda's stories. Emotions tug at the heart while we watch the emotional trauma of the dark-colored child in Rina's Dolls and the helplessness of 'Ajji', the great-grandmother deserted by people she trusted. The aged couple in Giving Up are forced to make painful compromises while the aged hero of Self Dignity refuses to compromise and forges his conclusion to his end. Chandrika speaks of a ruffled marital relationship while A Nest In Winter speaks of a couple riding over rough times. There Was Life In Stone portrays the debate between Science and Religion.
Book Synopsis What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by : Raymond Carver
Download or read book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books)—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman. "Raymond Carver's America is ... clouded by pain and the loss of dreams, but it is not as fragile as it looks. It is a place of survivors and a place of stories.... [Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own, like no other except that very world, as Wordsworth said, which is the world to all of us." —The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by : Rabindranath Tagore
Download or read book The Hungry Stones and Other Stories written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hungry Stones is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman.
Download or read book The Golden Bell written by Tamar Sachs and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ™. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In biblical times, Itamar, the tailor's son, has carefully carried the High Priest's robe—with its little golden bells sewn onto the hem—home for his father to mend. But one day, one of the bells is missing! When nobody turns in the lost bell at the Claiming Stone, Itamar wonders if the tiny bell will ever be found. A surprise ending brings the story into modern times when an archaeologist finds a golden bell at a Jerusalem dig.
Book Synopsis One Rupee Coin and Other Stories by : Rajesh Pai
Download or read book One Rupee Coin and Other Stories written by Rajesh Pai and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank God for the blessing showered on me for the completion of this Book. Thanks to my parents. Thanks to my friends for encouraging me and listening to me, whenever I had a story to tell,especially in social media Platforms. Thanks to "Awesome things in India "and " Indian Citizen" for giving me an opportunity to post some of my stories on their FB page on festive occasions. And after all thank you my dear readers of this book, who gave me an opportunity to tell a story, which I hope I put the best in me by God's Grace. Happy reading. Stay blessed !
Book Synopsis Fairy Tales and Other Stories by : Hans Christian Andersen
Download or read book Fairy Tales and Other Stories written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Youth and Other Stories by : Mori Ōgai
Download or read book Youth and Other Stories written by Mori Ōgai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogai's (1862-1922) stature among modern Japanese writers is unparalleled, but until recently his work in translation has languished in scholarly monographs and journals. Japan scholar Rimer has gathered several of Ogai's best-known stories and the first complete translation of a major work, Seinen ("
Book Synopsis Two Mothers and Other Stories by : Khalid Mohamed
Download or read book Two Mothers and Other Stories written by Khalid Mohamed and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2012 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of short stories are deeply personal in nature, all located in Mumbai- its folds and seams- which the writer has explored all his life. Familial bond or the lack of them, an intimate dekko at a media group's machinations, a close study of the Irani community which is fast vanishing in the metropolis, the underworld and the staggeringly bold new world of sexual relationships sparked by websites are just some of the narratives, with a twist in the tale. KHALID MOHAMED started as reviewer and co-editor, during his teenage years for close-up, a film society magazine. He reviewed television for The Economic Times basides contributing articles to The Illustrated Weekly of India and Femina. His writing has writing has also featured in India Today,The Indian Express, The Telegraph, the international film weekly Variety and in Sunday Observer, London. He was film critic for Mid-day, Senior Editor of DNA newspaper, and National Culture Editor and film critic for Hindustan Times. Currently, he is Consulting Editor to the Deccan Chronicle media group. He wrote the original stories and screenplays and also directed the films Fiza, Tehzeeb and Silsilaay . He debuted recently as a playwright and director of the stageplay Kennedy Bridge. His documentary The Last Irani Chai has been screened widely. His second documentary Smiles and Tears on Mumbai's street children is under post-production. Presently, he is writing his second stageplay and his first novel.
Book Synopsis Thomas Eldo and Other Stories by : Ashwathi
Download or read book Thomas Eldo and Other Stories written by Ashwathi and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sense of belonging is what everyone craves for. It emanates from the capacity to empathize with others, often manifesting in strong family relationships and deep-rooted friendships. The course of life is dictated by the ebb and flow of these emotions. Most of the stories depict this ebb and flow. Once this outer crust is broken, beneath lies a bottomless ocean of loneliness where one has to navigate alone. Thomas Eldo, a man of many moods (at times arrogant, at times whimsical), thought he was never going to be a captive of this web of emotions. But once the mantle was shattered, he became helpless. He had to spend the rest of his life searching for friendly ports to dock. Nowhere could he berth permanently. He was a tiring Ulysses without a pining Penelope.
Book Synopsis The Plum Rains and Other Stories by : Givens John
Download or read book The Plum Rains and Other Stories written by Givens John and published by The Liffey Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan. The last decade of the 17th century. Men who lived by the sword find themselves cut adrift while women begin to confront new threats and opportunities. The austere demands of the haikai poet are no match for the growing popularity of urban performers, and the medieval samurai ethos has been replaced by the culture of the merchant and the shogun’s bureaucrats. This colourful but remote world is portrayed in these stories. Basho, Japan’s greatest poet, features in several of them. We also meet Ohasu, a young woman trapped in the decadence of the pleasure quarters; Hasegawa, a rogue samurai who seeks solace in wine, in the rigours of Zen Buddhism, and in his willingness to defend an outmoded code. A mysterious woman buried in an imperial nunnery struggles with an unbearable remorse; a senior shogunate official seeks to preserve Basho’s poetic legacy; a teenage sociopath tries to carve out his own career with a gratuitous and murderous assault; and a bizarrely preternatural pariah executioner accepts his destiny. Sometimes surprising, sometimes horrifying, The Plum Rains & Other Stories brings to life a uniquely beautiful and violent world. Angry and confused, they went looking for answers. They found none. There were no books to help them with the emotional upheaval they were going through. There were no explanations from the hospital as to why they had lost their baby and the counselling on offer was largely ineffective. What followed was an awkward few months where they could not grieve together and their relationship was severely strained. It was not just their relationship with each other that was affected. Family and friends who did not know how to deal with the situation also became isolated from them. Realising that communication was the key to getting through this sorrowful time, they finally started talking and found a way to get their relationship back on track. They also found that if they spoke honestly and openly to family and friends, they could get those relationships back as well. Knowing that other couples who have lost a baby would be going through similar difficulties, they decided to write down their experience in an effort to help them. Their beautifully written and poignant story, dealing with an issue that is too rarely acknowledged and discussed openly, is one of complete and heart-rending honesty.
Book Synopsis Changeling and Other Stories by : Donn Byrne
Download or read book Changeling and Other Stories written by Donn Byrne and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was an Irish author (1889-1928) who wrote "Messer Marco Polo" and "Hangman's House."
Book Synopsis The Radio and Other Stories by : Gil Ndi-Shang
Download or read book The Radio and Other Stories written by Gil Ndi-Shang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.
Book Synopsis The Encantadas and Other Stories by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Encantadas and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features 14 of Melville's short stories reprinted from Harper's and Putnam's magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story set on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Bell-Tower," more.
Book Synopsis The Bells of Old Tokyo by : Anna Sherman
Download or read book The Bells of Old Tokyo written by Anna Sherman and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman explores Japan and revels in all its wonderful particularity. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, Sherman’s account takes pleasure and fascination in the history and culture of a country that can seem startlingly strange to an outsider. Following her search for the lost bells of the city – the bells by which its inhabitants kept time before the Jesuits introduced them to clocks – to her personal friendship with the owner of a small, exquisite cafe, who elevates the making and drinking of coffee to an art-form, here is Tokyo in its bewildering variety. From the love hotels of Shinjuku to the appalling fire-storms of 1945 (in which many more thousands of people died than in Hiroshima or Nagasaki), from the death of Mishima to the impact of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. For fans of The Lonely City, and Lost in Translation, The Bells of Old Tokyo is a beautiful and original portrait of Tokyo told through time.
Book Synopsis Expiated, and other stories by : Bertha Jane Laffan
Download or read book Expiated, and other stories written by Bertha Jane Laffan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
