A stunning new collection from a master storytellerThe best Indian prose writer of his generation here confirms his reputation with a superlative collection of stories and a poignant memoir. The stories, set for the most part in modern Bombay and Calcutta, are by turns moving and funny. Some explore the lives of the post-Independence upper classes, their relations to each other and to the concepts of celebrity, popular culture, art and tradition; others are vibrant and enticing retellings of episodes from Hindu mythologies such as the Ramayana. The finale of the book, a verse memoir E-Minor, is a elegant and powerful meditation on the writer's Bombay origins, in the best tradition of Indian autobiography.
- ISBN10 0143419633
- ISBN13 9780143419631
- Publish Date 15 February 2013 (first published 18 April 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English