Mithun Number Two and other Mumbai stories
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Chennai Eka 2024Description: 256 p. HB 21x13 cmISBN: 9789360458072Subject(s): FictionDDC classification: 820.3301 Summary: These are stories tinged with melancholy but lit with hope, capturing moments of transcendence in the midst of anonymity and routine. Young men migrate to Mumbai looking for work or a more exciting life, while others, women and men, young and old, make the journey for different reasons. In this city that rules the dreams of people up and down the coast, strangers become friends, families negotiate strife and affection, and children grow up in homes where the lines between coercion and care are blurred. Delightfully unexpected and deceptively simple, Jayant Kaikini's stories in this deft translation by Tejaswini Niranjana are unforgettable.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | St Aloysius College (Autonomous) | English | 820.3301 KAIM (Browse shelf) | Available | 077063 |
Browsing St Aloysius College (Autonomous) shelves, Collection: English Close shelf browser
No cover image available | ||||||||
820.33 TRIS Sarasvatichandra Part IV: The dreamland of Sarasvatichandra and the culmination | 820.33 TYRN No God in Sight | 820.3301 JOLS Selected writings | 820.3301 KAIM Mithun Number Two and other Mumbai stories | 820.3301 RAIC Cornered wolf and other medical stories | 820.4 LEWW What Went Wrong:the clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East | 820.409 SENT Towards freedom: critical essays on Rabindranath Tagores Ghare Baire the home and the world |
These are stories tinged with melancholy but lit with hope, capturing moments of transcendence in the midst of anonymity and routine. Young men migrate to Mumbai looking for work or a more exciting life, while others, women and men, young and old, make the journey for different reasons. In this city that rules the dreams of people up and down the coast, strangers become friends, families negotiate strife and affection, and children grow up in homes where the lines between coercion and care are blurred.
Delightfully unexpected and deceptively simple, Jayant Kaikini's stories in this deft translation by Tejaswini Niranjana are unforgettable.
There are no comments on this title.