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White dancing elephants : stories / Chaya Bhuvaneswar.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.H54 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bhuvaneswar, Chaya, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India.
- Short stories.
- India--Fiction.
- India--21st century--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. In sixteen remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color--cunning, bold, and resolute--facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other.
- Contents:
- White dancing elephants
- The story of the woman who fell in love with death
- Talinda
- A Shaker chair
- Jagatishwaran
- The bang bang
- Orange popsicles
- Neela: Bhopal, 1984
- Chronicle of a marriage, foretold
- Heitor
- Newberry
- Asha in Allston
- The life you save isn't your own
- The orphan handler
- In Allegheny
- The goddess of beauty goes bowling
- Adristakama.
- ISBN:
- 9781945814617
- 1945814616
- OCLC:
- 1022991696
- Publisher Number:
- 99978784712
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