Hey Dear readers,
We are back with yet another wonderful read along with my lovely Indian fellow bloggers.
We are back with yet another wonderful read along with my lovely Indian fellow bloggers.
We are going to read a book which is a collection of short-stories inter linked which each other. And after reading good reviews we decided to read it together. Are you joining us?
Here is the schedule:
Our fellow hosts for this read-along are-
Sarika & Janhvi @ The Readdicts (Twitter - @SarikaP8 and @justjanhvi)
Fahima @ I Read, Ergo I Write (Twitter- @ireadergoiwrite)
Nimi @ The Readers Cosmos (Twitter- @thereaderscosmos)
We will be reading 2 stories per week.
About the book:
Title: Left From Dhakeshwari
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Leadstart Publishing
Genre: Fiction, Indian
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'Left from Dhakeshwari' is a collection of nine interconnected stories dealing with lust and loneliness, death and obsession, memories and madness.
In the first story, 'We Were Writers', we meet a Bengali film actress, who after her brother’s suicide, returns to her small hometown and reflects upon the life she left behind; in ‘Bomb Church’, Aniruddha tries to piece together his mother’s identity after her mysterious departure; the only clues available in the existential whodunit being: a soap-box, a brown shoe and the statements of five witnesses; while the heartrending 'Salt Lake' recounts an unusual affair between a disfigured girl and a mime-artist with scars of his own.
The other characters in this collection include a runaway teenage-girl, an agoraphobic writer, a masochistic cosmetic surgeon, a ghostess, identical twins and a manic-depressive housewife. And they are all in search, of a time and place they can call their own. That is perhaps why the title itself, denotes both a time and a place: a point of departure and the forbearer of journeys.
In his first solo book, Kunal Sen infuses his women with souls of poetesses and a seductive melancholy and arms his men with child-like, romantic sadism. 'Left from Dhakeshwari' is written in a style that straddles between the tragic-dramatic and mildly surrealistic, but remains in the end a book about some remarkably original people and their depths and failings
Other Links : Author Website / Goodreads / Book Trailer
I am really looking forward to read this book.
You don't need to be a blogger to join. Everyone is invited.
I hope you'll join us in the Read-along! You can just leave a comment below.
Happy reading!
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