Blue Is Like Blue: Stories

Vinod Kumar Shukla, Sara Rai and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

ISBN 10: 9356996660 / ISBN 13: 9789356996663

Published by Harper Perennial India, 2023

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Renowned for bringing the marvellous to the ordinary, Vinod Kumar Shukla has long been recognized as one of India's foremost writers, with a voice uniquely his own. The stories in Blue Is Like Blue deal with 'smaller-than-life people'. They live in rented accommodation, often in single rooms, where one electric bulb does for light. There's a nail to hang clothes from and a wall-to-wall string for the washing. When the clothes are dry, you place the carefully folded shirt under a pillow and lie down to sleep. Money is a concern, but the bazaar is the place to go and spend time in, especially if you have nothing to buy. The fear that you may be overcharged accompanies every transaction, but joy is not entirely absent. Few works of modern Indian literature come alive in English, and fewer still in the way that these stories do in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai's brilliant translation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blue Is Like Blue: Stories
• Publisher: Harper Perennial India
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9356996660
• ISBN 13: 9789356996663
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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About the Authors

SARA RAI has translated The Golden Waist-Chain and Munshi Premchand's Kazaki and Other Marvellous Tales. Her memoir, Raw Umber, was published in January 2023.

VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA is a poet and novelist from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In 1999, Shukla received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi. In 2023, he was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

 

 

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry, Songs of Kabir and Treasurer of Piggy Banks, a selection of Vinod Kumar Shukla's poems.