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On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life: successful husband, cute children, a beautiful home. But her troubled past refuses to disappear, and the emergence of a handsome competitor at the local golf course brings it back in disturbing fashion.
Written in a lyrical, yet plainspoken style, this collection of ten short stories tell of love, loss, and longing, set against the brilliantly realized backdrop of contemporary Meghalaya, in India’s northeast. Readers of contemporary fiction will find themselves transported―into other lives and other places―but they will recognize the dilemmas, the heartbreaks, and the emotions as those common to all humanity.
Written in a lyrical, yet plainspoken style, this collection of ten short stories tell of love, loss, and longing, set against the brilliantly realized backdrop of contemporary Meghalaya, in India’s northeast. Readers of contemporary fiction will find themselves transported―into other lives and other places―but they will recognize the dilemmas, the heartbreaks, and the emotions as those common to all humanity.
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Bijoya Sawian is a translator and writer who lives in Shillong and Dehra Dun in north India. She is the author of several books, including Shadow Men, also published by Zubaan.
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Shadow Men is a Khasi woman s lament for a homeland threatened by selfishness and greed. It ...has been long overdue and deserves to be read with the same measure of intelligent thought with which it was written --Janet Moore
Shillong comes across as the hero of the story the paradise that it once was and no longer.... Shadow Men will jolt you and make you see things differently. It is unlike any other book I have read in a long time --Sonia Pressman Fuentes, thehungryreader.com
Shillong comes across as the hero of the story the paradise that it once was and no longer.... Shadow Men will jolt you and make you see things differently. It is unlike any other book I have read in a long time --Sonia Pressman Fuentes, thehungryreader.com
Shillong comes across as the hero of the story the paradise that it once was and no longer.... Shadow Men will jolt you and make you see things differently. It is unlike any other book I have read in a long time --Sonia Pressman Fuentes, thehungryreader.com
Shillong comes across as the hero of the story the paradise that it once was and no longer.... Shadow Men will jolt you and make you see things differently. It is unlike any other book I have read in a long time --Sonia Pressman Fuentes, thehungryreader.com
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