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Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043233ISBN 13: 9788125043232
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. pp. x + 266.
Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043233ISBN 13: 9788125043232
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. pp. x + 266.
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043233ISBN 13: 9788125043232
Seller: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, India
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Published by Orient Blackswan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043233ISBN 13: 9788125043232
Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents Phenomenological Explorations Introducing Lakshmi Kannan?s Short FictionC T Indra Lakshmi Kannan?s Fictional Weltanschauung An InterviewChristine Gomez A Conversation with Lakshmi KannanSudha Rai SHORT STORIES 1 Nandanvan 2 Ejamaanar 3 Please Dear God 4 Muniyakka 5 Nagapushpam 6 Zeroing In 7 Savvyasachi Square 8 The Maze 9 Just Think About It 10 Simone de Beauvoir and the Manes 11 A Word with you Father 12 A Guava with a Red Heart 13 A Political Colour 14 Because 15 A Sky All Around 16 Maria NOVELLA Another Hour Another Hue Lakshmi Kannan?s Nandanvan & Other Stories is a collection of 17 of her own stories originally written in Tamil As vivid in imagination as they are realistic the stories in this collection are reflections on gender sexuality filial piety construction of identity cultural institutions and the individual existing ?within? and ?outside? The stories situated in various locales the home a hospital a government office the university the London Tube parks and gardens temples and restaurants introduce us to several memorable characters Sensitive women who negotiate their space through an essentially patriarchal culture with confidence in the strength of their womanhood An elderly man who understands the language of the birds so completely that the birds take over as the chief protagonists of the story and later evolve as the most concerned mourners at his funeral A narrator who sees in a total stranger an uncanny resemblance to his dead father with whom he had a difficult relationship An art historian trapped in a bleak and cheerless life languishing in a bureaucratic system of the government department in which he works The thoughts and feelings of a man in a coma who wanders through the corridors of a subterranean region of the dead The coming back of a woman from the clutches of death as an answer to fervent prayers Kannan?s characters reflect their strength of spirit as they struggle with the inevitable pain of existence everyday grievances and prejudices the indomitable will to survive loneliness and sorrow and the confidence to resolve inner and external conflict Her protagonists reveal themselves through soliloquies dialogue and evocative silences Kannan is her own translator Perhaps that is why the rhythms and idioms of the Tamil world is translated into such fluid prose in English where she masterfully retains the intensity and ethos of the original The spectrum of experiences and sensibilities depicted in these lucid probing and absorbing narratives is a must read 280 pp.
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2011
ISBN 10: 8125043233ISBN 13: 9788125043232
Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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