ISBN: 9789353769970 Pages: 512 Size: 198 x 129 mm Language: English Book Binding: Paperback Weight: 190 gm.
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About The Book
This definitive edition brings together all the short stories Gajra Kottary has written in one
comprehensive volume. A keen observer of the minutiae of everyday life, she infuses these
stories with an uncanny understanding of the feminine psyche in the three sections the stories are
divided into – the complicated aspects of a woman’s relationship with a man, the shades of grey
that mark interactions between women, and the self-reflective bond a woman has with her own
self. Always engaging and heartfelt, delightfully unpredictable, often laced with a sense of
wicked humour, these 50 stories provide a fascinating portrait of urban women and their
predicaments in contemporary India and an insight into the work of one of the country’s finest
authors writing in English.
About Gajra Kottary
Gajra Kottary debuted as an author in early 1996 with her first collection of short stories. Her debut novel Broken Melodies was published in 2011. Her second novel Once upon a Star was released in December 2014 and the third, Girls Don’t Cry in June 2017. She is an award-winning screenwriter for some of the biggest shows on Indian television, including Astitva and Balika Vadhu.