Stephen Alter,Wimal Dissanayake
Twenty classic short stories from master writers across the country. This superb collection contains some of the best Indian short stories written in the last fifty years, both in English and in the regional language. Some of these stories â€“ â€˜We Have Arrived in Amritsarâ€™ by Bhisham Sahni, â€˜Companionsâ€™ by Raja Rao, â€˜The Sky and the Catâ€™ by U.R. Anantha Murthy, â€˜A Devoted Sonâ€™ by Anita Desai â€“ have been widely anthologized and well known. Others, like Premendra Mitraâ€™s â€˜The Discovery of Telenapotaâ€™, Gangadhar Gadgilâ€™s â€˜The Dog that Ran in Circlesâ€™, Mowniâ€™s â€˜A Loss of Identityâ€™, O.V. Vijayanâ€™s â€˜The Wartâ€™ and Devanurn Mahadevaâ€™s Amasaâ€™, are less familiar to readers but are nevertheless classics of the art of the short story.,This new and revised edition includes three additional classics: R.K. Narayanâ€™s â€˜Another Communityâ€™, Avinash Dolasâ€™s â€˜The Victim and Ismat Chughtaiâ€™s â€˜The Wedding Shroudâ€™.,The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories is a marvellous and entertaining introduction to the rich diversity of pleasure that the Indian short story â€“ a form that has produced masters in over a dozen languages â€“ can offer.
Short Stories,Fiction,Cultural,India,Asian Literature,Indian Literature,Anthologies
The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories