No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
of Jayant Kaikini, Tejaswini Niranjana (Translator)
Description
For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small-town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikiniâs gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbaiâa bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his witâs end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couplesâ affectationsââno presents pleaseââand look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher Catapult
- Publication Date July 28th 2020
- First Publication 11/25/17
- Language English
- ISBN 9781948226905
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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