A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present

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The thirty-nine short stories in this book will blow you away. Starting with a ghost story by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s most famous writer, and ending with a fable by Kanishk Tharoor, a writer who has come of age in the twenty-first century, these literary masterpieces showcase the extraordinary range and diversity of our storytelling tradition. The first recognizably modern Indian short stories were written in Bengal (by Tagore and others) in the second half of the nineteenth century, and writers from other regions were quick to follow suit, often using the form to protest colonial oppression and the various ills afflicting rural and urban India. Over the next century and a half, some of the finest writers the world has seen produced outstanding fiction in every conceivable genre. Many of these stories find a place in this volume, as does work by emerging talent that has never been published in book form before. Here you will find stories of classical realism, ones rooted in folklore and myth, tales of fantasy, humour, horror, crime, and romance, stories set in villages, small towns, cities and the moon. They will entertain you, and shock you, they will lighten your mood and cast you down, they will move you, and they will make you reflect on life’s big and little questions. Most of all, they will make you see the world differently-as the greatest stories always do.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Davidar

David Davidar, 43, is CEO and Publisher of Penguin Books India, India’s leading trade and general publisher, and a subsidiary of the Penguin Group. He was one of the founder members of the Company and at age 26 was the youngest publisher in India and one of the youngest anywhere in the world. In May 2000, he was also appointed Managing Director of Dorling Kindersley India, the Indian subsidiary of the world’s leading illustrated reference publisher. During his time at Penguin India he has published some of the best known Indian authors in the world including Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, R K Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Rohinton Mistry, Shobhaa De, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Ramachandra Guha, Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Chandra, Shashi Deshpande, Kiran Desai, Romila Thapar and Mark Tully. Before he came to Penguin, he was Executive Editor of Gentleman magazine in Bombay. David Davidar obtained his B. Sc. from Madras University and has a diploma in publishing from Radcliffe College/Harvard University. He has taken senior management and finance programmes at top management schools such as the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France. He has written a weekly books column for The Hindu for over a decade. David Davidar is married and lives in New Delhi.

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Title
A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
9789382277361
Length
544p.,
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