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No ghosts in this city : and other stories / Uddipana Goswami.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.4.G67 N64 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goswami, Uddipana, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Fiction.
- Political violence.
- Assam (India)--Fiction.
- Assam (India).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Zubaan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Twelve short stories about everyday life and the political realities of Assam. "My stories," says the author, "are a lot about darkness but they are also about the small sparks of light that occasionally dispel the demons in our souls." In this collection, a doctor's comfortable existence in a tea estate is rudely shattered by violent conflict, a daughter reflects on the futility of rebellion, children discover how shockingly little time it takes to go from joking to being thrown headlong into bloody carnage. Sharp and eloquent, Uddipana Goswami's stories bring into harsh focus how interwoven political violence is with everyday life. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I Thought I Knew My Ma 16
- This is How We Lived 25
- No Ghosts in This City 41
- Virginia Mahi 48
- Sin and Retribution 53
- The Swing 66
- I Do Not Love Sam 73
- Melki Buri 87
- Andolan 94
- The Hills of Haflong 111
- The Rains Come From Behind the Curtain 116.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- ISBN:
- 9789383074075
- 9383074078
- OCLC:
- 871671036
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