Faces and Other Stories - Softcover

Palit, Dibyendu; Chaudhuri, Santanu Sinha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8187981334 ISBN 13: 9788187981336

Publisher: Indialog Publications, 2003

This anthology of 12 short stories by Dibyendu Palit, a noted Bengali writer, is evocative of the growing isolation in an urban context. Amongst others, the faces in this volume are of a middle-class man whose own weakness forces him to look up to the local ruffian to protect him against more ruffians like him; a housewife who feels trapped in a marriage that ties her destiny with the runs scored by her cricketer husband; and a mother living out her last days in an old-age home finding escape from her alientation by surrounding himself with imagined faces of the loved ones who never visit her.

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