Overview of A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present Book

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do. The thirtynine short stories in this book will blow you away. Starting with a ghoststory by Rabindranath Tagore, India's most famous writer and ending with a fable by Kanishk Tharoor, a writer who has come of age in the twenty first century, these literary masterpieces showcase the extraordinary range and diversity of our story telling tradition. The first recognizably modern Indian short stories were written in Bengal (by Tagore andothers) in the second half of the nineteenth century and writers from other regions werequick to follow suit, often using the form to protest colonial oppression and the various illsafflicting rural and urban India. Over the next century and a half, some of the finest writers the world has seen produced outstanding fiction in every conceivable genre. Many of these stories find a place in this volume, as does work by emerging talent that has never been published in book form before. Here you will find stories of classical realism, ones rootedin folklore and myth, tales of fantasy, humour, horror, crime and romance, stories set invillages, small towns, cities and the moon. They will entertain you and shock you, they will lighten your mood and cast you down, they will move you and they will make you reflect onlife's big and little questions. Most of all, they will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.

• Book Type :

ShortStories

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

9382277366

• A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces: Extraordinary Short Stories from the 19th Century to the Present Published On :

11 Dec 2014

• Resource:

Students and Professionals:Literature&Fiction, ShortStories

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