Bombay Wali & Other Stories

by Veena Gokhale

Overview

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere. A wealthy business woman compelled by the desire to hurt her best friend; an old woman in a Tokyo apartment seeking the touch of a baby's hand; a woman reflecting on violence as a riot rages outside her home. Tales about friendship and repulsion, family ties and freedom; violence, public and private; ambition and uncertainty, alienation and acceptance, growing up and growing old.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550716733
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/31/2013
Series:	First Fictions Series , #5
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	368 KB

About the Author

Veena Gokhale started her career in the mercurial world of print journalism in Bombay, in the 1980s. She first came to Canada on a journalism fellowship, returning to do a Masters in Environmental Studies in Toronto. After immigrating, she worked in communications for non-profit organizations, which included a two-year stint in Tanzania. She has published fiction and poetry in anthologies and literary journals, and read from her work. In 2011, she received a grant from Vivacité Montréal, Quebec Arts Council, to write her first novel. She is currently marketing that book. She lives in Montreal with her partner, Marc-Antoine.

Table of Contents

"Bombay Wali

Middle Age Jazz and Blues

The Tea Drinker

Zindagi Itefaq Hai (Life is Chance)

Freire Stopped in Bombay

Absolution

Smoke and Mirrors

Snapshot

Reveries of a Riot

Kathmandu

The Room

Munni

Author Notes

Glossary

Acknowledgements

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Editorial Reviews

"These are stories that provide the genuine flavour and taste of India, and other exotic locales - we meet true-to-life characters imbued with interest and complexity." — Mark Frutkin

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