Three Virgins And Other Stories |
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Author:
| Padmanabhan, Manjula |
ISBN: | 978-93-81017-61-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | 'Zubaan Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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From the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play
Harvest, this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new, some old, and all of them edgy. In biting and satirical critiques of contemporary society, Manjula Padmanabhan displays a remarkable range. We read of a white American widow who plans a designer version of
sati or self-immolation, a pervert and his magic phallus on a...
More DescriptionFrom the award-winning writer of the acclaimed play Harvest, this debut collection of stories will electrify readers with its unusual, radical, and troubling themes. Here are ten tales, some new, some old, and all of them edgy. In biting and satirical critiques of contemporary society, Manjula Padmanabhan displays a remarkable range. We read of a white American widow who plans a designer version of sati or self-immolation, a pervert and his magic phallus on a double-decker bus, a black American girl with a unique take on Hindu civilization, a juvenile mad scientist who schemes in a proletarian dystopia, electronic simulacra that make high-voltage love, and a mature scientist who confronts infertility in teeming India. For good measure, there's also a coming-of-age story, a marriage proposal, a thwarted murder, and a story about the Government of India's Bureau of Reincarnation.