Bibliograph

No presents please, Mumbai stories, Jayant Kaikini ; translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana

Type

Label

No presents please, Mumbai stories, Jayant Kaikini ; translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

No presents please

Oclc number

1121082600

Responsibility statement

Jayant Kaikini ; translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana

Sub title

Mumbai stories

Summary

"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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

Classification