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Collected Stories

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Paperback | 2018 | Penguin Books

In this collection we find Shashi Deshpande at her best, writing with subtlety and a rare sensitivity about men and women trapped in relationships and situations often not of their making.

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Author : Shashi Deshpande

PB | 2 Books | 2018 | Penguin Books

In this collection we find Shashi Deshpande at her best, writing with subtlety and a rare sensitivity about men and women trapped in relationships and situations often not of their making.

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Volume I
Not many readers of Shashi Deshpande may be aware that her first experiments in writing fiction started with the short story. Over the years, she has published about a hundred stories in literary journals, magazines and newspapers, in between writing her immensely popular novels which are now read all over the world, and taught in universities wherever Indian writing has an audience. In this collection we find Shashi Deshpande at her best, writing with subtlety and a rare sensitivity about men and women trapped in relationships and situations often not of their making. The wife of a successful politician who must look to a long lost past in order to keep up the pretence of contentment a little girl who cannot comprehend why the very fact of her being born is a curse a young man whose fantasy of love drives him to murder a newlywed couple with dramatically differing views on what it means to get to know each other every one of the characters here is delineated with lucidity and compassion. Written over the past three decades, the stories in this volume provide an insight into often forgotten aspects of human feelings and relationships, weaving a magical web of emotions that is testimony to the unusual depth and range of Shashi Deshpande’s writing.

Volume II
In this, the second volume of her collected short fiction, we travel with the author into a world of characters and situations that are identifiable, and experience emotions that are at once complex and cathartic. Intensely felt and beautifully rendered, these are stories that will stay with you a long, long time.

Author:	Shashi Deshpande
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Binding:	Paperback
Year of Publication:	2018
Edition:	First
Condition:	New
Country of Origin:	India

About the Author

Shashi Deshpande's writing career began in 1970, initially with short stories, of which several volumes have been published. She is the author of The Dark Holds No Terrors and That Long Silence.

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