About the book
Love is in the air. Come ... discover caring and sharing, loving and being, in nineteen different ways.
Katha Prize Stories 9 brings you some of the best stories from sixteen languages, specially chosen by eminent writers, critics, scholars, and translated with flair. Real stories, they explore the magic of masterly writings that are excitingly new and exuberantly alive - see a butterfly take wing, feel the moon melt in your palm, exult in the energy of fire and ice. Enjoy!
Contents
The nominating editors |
|
The kathaaward winners for 1999 |
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Preface |
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One night |
17 |
.Headmaster. Prawn, chanachur |
23 |
The eighteenth camel |
39 |
Cigarette in an ashtray |
75 |
The boat |
81 |
The web |
101 |
Panchali |
111 |
The lone feather |
117 |
Butterefly |
125 |
Darwin’s cousin |
139 |
Summer on the island |
153 |
Zameen |
167 |
Black bucks in the bus |
179 |
Ketaki grove |
187 |
Who lives like this? |
201 |
Snehalata |
213 |
The witness |
239 |
The wrong |
251 |
The moon in the earthen pot |
281 |
Contributors’ notes |
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A select list of regional magazines |
|
About the book
Love is in the air. Come ... discover caring and sharing, loving and being, in nineteen different ways.
Katha Prize Stories 9 brings you some of the best stories from sixteen languages, specially chosen by eminent writers, critics, scholars, and translated with flair. Real stories, they explore the magic of masterly writings that are excitingly new and exuberantly alive - see a butterfly take wing, feel the moon melt in your palm, exult in the energy of fire and ice. Enjoy!
Contents
The nominating editors |
|
The kathaaward winners for 1999 |
|
Preface |
|
One night |
17 |
.Headmaster. Prawn, chanachur |
23 |
The eighteenth camel |
39 |
Cigarette in an ashtray |
75 |
The boat |
81 |
The web |
101 |
Panchali |
111 |
The lone feather |
117 |
Butterefly |
125 |
Darwin’s cousin |
139 |
Summer on the island |
153 |
Zameen |
167 |
Black bucks in the bus |
179 |
Ketaki grove |
187 |
Who lives like this? |
201 |
Snehalata |
213 |
The witness |
239 |
The wrong |
251 |
The moon in the earthen pot |
281 |
Contributors’ notes |
|
A select list of regional magazines |
|