She Writes… A Collection of Short Stories.
She
Writes… A Collection of Short Stories.
ISBN : 9788184001242
Binding : Paperback
Price : 299
Imprint : Random House India
Subject : General & Literary
Fiction
The twelve featured writers are: •
Anisha Bhaduri • Amrita Saikia• Geeta Sundar• Yishey Doma • Sheela Jaywant •
Prarthana Rao • Aprameya Manthena • Chitralekha • Belinder Dhanoa • Santana
Pathak • Jyotsna Jha • Shreya Manjunath
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“She
Writes” is a collection of short stories featuring the work of twelve contemporary
female writers from across the country (India).
Random House India in association with MSN in the month of May 2012 had
conducted a short story contest to hunt for India’s twelve finest women
writers. The twelve stories were
selected from the thousands of entries. Finely blended, the book says every
woman has a story to tell, the stories are based on three themes.
The
themes are –
i)
Woman in the City
ii)
Growing up in India
iii)
The man in my Life.
According
to the theme, one can find stories like - a
woman trapped in a stifling marriage makes a shocking discovery, a repressed
memory is suddenly brought back by a dead tree, a self-styled nun finds
unlikely love in a Tibetan monastery. Rich and deeply evocative, “She Writes”
is a celebration of some of the most exciting writing talent in our country.
Preti Shrenoy in her introductory note scribbles words like “Each
of these twelve stories here are remarkable in their own way. They are stories
from women like you and me, based in different places like Chennai, Kolkata,
Hyderabad, New Delhi, Bangalore and Gangtok”. True to her words, the
stories are diverse giving a taste of the particular geography, myriad lifestyle
and theme which has been woven deeply with the various stylistic characteristics
that is superior enough to give a reader a second thought on reading the
distinctive beautifully weaved stories. Certain evocative quotes were used as
the catalyst for the upbringing of the collection of short stories. The quotes
were taken from the Man Booker winning Book God of Small Things, Gone with the
Wind and a quote by Oscar Wilde. All the stories revolve around the three
quotes and one can find the incorporation of each topic somewhere in the
stories.
“She Writes” has juxtaposed the
myriad existence in a single shack of paper. Anisha Bhaduri, Sheela Jaywant,
Yishey Doma, Dr Geeta Sundar among the twelve writers are published writers.
While talking on some of the stories, the first story by Anushka Bhaduri has a
newly wed middle class Bengali couple and their honey moon stay in Darjeeling
is quite an interesting read. However, the protagonists name is spelt as Konika
at times and as Konica in different sections of the story. Jyotshn Jha‘s story
“The tourist" is about an Anglo-Indian girl Michele who unwillingly visits
India and falls in love with a doctor but later finds out a shocking fact about
him that shakes her. Stories like "White Chilly" by Dr. Geeta
Sundar is a nice story that tells about an inexplicable bond between two women
who meet during their walk, Yishey Doma’s story “Mantra’s of Love” portrays the
anecdote of Yangchen,
a nun, and Philip, a photographer from New York, who finds love in the hills
during a trek to Dzongri. The other stories in “She Writes” are also very
interesting after all they were selected from the thousands of entries from
across the country.
So
readers’ take your time, as the twelve dynamic stories will very much fit in
with a cup of Tea or a Coffee. You won’t find any stereotype stories as the
themes applied in it are vibrant, apt and the stories have no endings. The Collection of short story “She Writes” has the
supremacy to quench the thirst of short story lovers and the publishers MSN and
Random House in making the book available to the global audience. The Book “She
Writes” is available in various book stores all around the world; all you need
to do is visit some of it.
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