作品情報

傘を手放さない男の姿が、自由の意味を静かに問い直す。

閉じた環境の中にある男の願望を通して、雨や自由のイメージを反復する。軽やかな筆致の下に、孤立と希望の両方が潜む。

書籍情報

出版社

Rupa Publications India

発売日

2015-03-11

ページ数

246ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

12.95 x 1.57 x 19.81 cm

ISBN-13

9788129135094

ISBN-10

9788129135094

価格

2496 JPY

カテゴリ

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.

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