Great short stories that speak of the trials and tribulations of everyday life.
Saffron, red as blood from the Kashmir Valley’s darkest days. A labourer who will move a mountain for love. Birds who look for freedom behind gilded bars. A condemned man in an operation theatre. A dancer in a palace, thinking about her lover-king’s wife. A refugee whose memories return now that he is dying. An evening in Calcutta grows lonelier for a man looking for companionship.
An Evening in Calcutta is an assortment of celebrated writer and award-winning film-maker K.A. Abbas’s most memorable stories. His characteristically crisp narratives and bold plotlines, informed as deeply by historical detail as they are by contemporary politics, reach into the familiar and draw out startling truths.
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