ISBN 9789353024932|Paperback|238 pages|2017|HarperCollins Publishers
No Presents Please : Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana is a collection of stories which give a feel of the city and its people.
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ISBN 9789353024932|Paperback|238 pages|2017|HarperCollins Publishers
No Presents Please : Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana is a collection of stories which give a feel of the city and its people.
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This is a collection about the people in the corners of the city, the young woman yearning for love, the certified virgin who must be married off again, the older woman and her medicines.
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks. From Irani cafes to chawls, old cinema houses to reform homes, Jayant Kaikini seeks out and illuminates moments of existential anxiety and of tenderness. In these sixteen stories, cracks in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed, but for this city where the surreal meets the everyday. This translation brings the rhythms of Kannada into English with admirable efficiency.
Author:
Jayant Kaikini
Translator: Tejaswini Niranjana
ISBN:
9789353024932
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
238
Year of Publication:
2017
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Contributors
The author is the recipient of many awards, including four Karnataka Sahitya Academy awards and the Atta Galatta Prize for Fiction. He is the three-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for best lyrics in Kannada. For her translations,
Tejaswini Niranjana is an Indian professor, cultural theorist, translator and author. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.
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