My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories
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My Mother's Lover and Other Stories by Sumana Roy is a collection of stories about people suffering from various ailments helping us appreciate the value of our time here on earth.
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My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories is a collection of fourteen stories about people who suffer from curious ailments: of a poet whose writing is seen to be an ailment by her family; an insomniac’s experience with sleep therapy; a woman’s obsession with getting rid of plastic; a woman in Darjeeling desperate for a drop of water; a student fixated on reading a love poem as the failed relationship of her parents; a young couple trapped in a student’s hostel during the 1971 war; a Nepali student passionate about proving that Nepalis are not stupid; a mother who can no longer differentiate between her heart and her head; a young woman on the verge of suicide; a girl who’s hidden her teeth in a palace garden; a girl who treats literature like astrology; a young lecturer who seeks fame but can’t foresee how it’ll destroy his life;
a singer with a mad harmonium; and two old lovers who are on a secret holiday until one of them finds out….
| Author: | Sumana Roy |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789389165630 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 252 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author wrote How I Became a Tree, a work of nonfiction, Missing: A Novel, and Out of Syllabus: Poems. Her poems and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, LARB, Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, The Common, and other journals. She lives in Siliguri and Sonipat, where she teaches at Ashoka University.
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