No Presents Please
Mumbai Stories
New York : Catapult, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 267 pages ; 21 cm
"Jayant Kaikini's gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai--a 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 wit's 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 couples' affectations--"no presents please"--and look once more at what they own"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Interval -- City without mirrors -- Unframed -- Opera house -- A spare pair of legs -- Inside the inner room -- Dagadu Parab's wedding horse -- Gateway -- Crescent moon -- Toofan mail -- Water -- Partner -- Mogri's World -- A truck full of chrysanthemums -- Tick tick friend -- No presents please.
ISBN:
1948226901
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Kaykini | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
"Frist published in India in 2017 by Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.