The Kept Woman and Other Stories

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"I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man." averred Kamala Das shortly before her death in May, 2009. One of the most controversial and celebrated Indian authors, she combined in her writings rare honesty and sensitivity, provocation and poignancy. The Kept Woman and Other Stories explores the man-woman relationship in all its dimensions. Deprived, depraved, mysterous, mystical and exalted, each character, culled from experience and observation, is an incisive study of love, lust and longing. The last collection of writings that Kamala Das compiled herself before her death. The Kept Woman and Other Stories is a moving and compelling read.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kamala Das

One of the greatest literary figures in Malayalam, Kamala Das was born in the year 1934 in Punnayurkulum, in South Malabar, Kerala. Educated mainly at home, she has been writing verses and prose since early youth that has given her a permanent place in modern Malayalam literature. She has been the recipient of such famous awards as the Poetry Award for the Asian PEN Anthology , the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the best collection of short stories in Malayalm, and the Chaman Lal Award for fearless journalism. Her famous volumes of verses are Summer in Calcutta, The Descendants, and the Old Playhouse and other Poems.