Commonwealth Short Story Prize
A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories
This allegorical short story follows a man who owns nothing but an umbrella as he moves from an asylum toward freedom. Reality and symbolism overlap, making solitude and release emerge at once.
Work Information
A man who refuses to let go of his umbrella quietly reopens the question of what freedom means.
Through a man’s desire inside a closed environment, the story repeatedly turns on the images of rain and freedom. Under its light touch, both isolation and hope remain present.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Rupa Publications India
- Published
- 2015-03-11
- Pages
- 246 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.95 x 1.57 x 19.81 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9788129135094
- ISBN-10
- 9788129135094
- Price
- 2496 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
Set in a land ravaged by political upheaval and war, A Fistful of Earth and Other Stories depicts a surreal world where people find themselves trapped in circumstances over which they have no control. In a series of bizarre incidents, a researcher is baffled by the secrets he unearths about a dying clan, a monk encounters an enigmatic stranger at a railway station, a municipal commissioner suddenly goes mad for no discernible reason, a medical intern discovers a shocking secret after a patient's death, two chess-loving inmates are unable to escape from a prison long after it has ceased to be one and a refugee undertakes an odyssey through time and memory in search of his lost friend. Written in elegant and lyrical prose and traversing a range of themes, these stories will transport you to a world of conflict and persecution, of banishment and exile, of loneliness and despair but where still glimmers a hope for redemption.
Siddhartha Gigoo was born in Srinagar, Kashmir. His first novel, The Garden of Solitude, was published in 2011.
Reviews
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Its Different
Read slow and go with the flow I am sure you would enjoy it.
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Five Stars
With reading
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Four Stars
Good read
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nice
Really.nice
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Five Stars
Awesome