These stories have been translated from the author’s award-winning Oriya collection, where characters are implicated in relationships they neither control nor fully understand. A husband’s discovery leads him to doubt whether he ever truly knew his wife. A daughter’s marriage concretises a rupture begun long before with her parents attempts to have control over her life. A writer confronts his need for recognition and ponders the nature of true success. Relationships here are paradoxical, never simple, often confining or disappointing, at times liberating, strongest when opposition to their realization exists, disappearing as the obstacles fall away.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.P. Das
Dr Jagannath Prasad Das is a well-known poet, playwright and fiction writer whose Puri Paintings continues to be a masterly volume on Orissan art. He has also co-authored with Professor Joanna Williams of University of California, Berkeley Palm-leaf Miniatures: The Art of Raghunath Prusti of Orissa. His other publications in English include First Person, Timescapes and Lovelines”collections of poems; Before Sunset, The Underdog and Sundardas”plays; The Magic Deer, The Forbidden Street and Dear Jester ” collections of stories. His plays have been translated into several Indian languages and staged in different parts of India. Before Sunset is considered a classic among modern Indian plays. Born in Orissa in 1936, Dr J P Das lives and works in Delhi.
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