Gracy

Baby Doll (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Complex, compelling and shocking - PAUL ZACHARIA

An intimate chronicle of the world we live in ... deceptively simple but searingly truthful - K.R. MEERA

Endlessly playful, cleverly mischievous, enchantingly magical, scarily nightmarish - K. SATCHIDANANDAN

When they were first published, Gracy's stories shocked readers with their sexual candour and frank celebration of female desire. She is now widely recognized as one of the most important contemporary writers in Malayalam.

Her short stories, which vary from half a page to novella-length, draw the reader into the world of modern men and women caught in quagmires of desire, lust, jealousy and vengeance - emotions that they often carry even into the afterlife. In these pages we will find: the bitter defiance of a daughter going to her mother's funeral in her most alluring sari; a contemporary retelling of the story of Draupadi; the sinister coming-of-age tale of a young girl...

Brilliantly rendered by award-winning translator Fathima E.V., Baby Doll brings a comprehensive selection of Gracy's work to English readers for the very first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Perennial India
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789390327881
• Artikelnr.: 60936956

Autorenporträt

Gracy is a Malayalam short-story writer, whose first collection of short stories, Padiyirangippoya Parvathi, came out in 1991. It was followed by nine more short-story collections. She has published three memoirs and a short autobiography. She has also made her mark in writing for children. Her work has been translated into Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, etc. Some of Gracy's stories have also been translated into English and Oriya. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Lalithambika Antharjanam Award (1995) instituted for women writers, the Thoppil Ravi Award (1997), the Katha Prize for the Best Malayalam Short Story (1998) and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (2000).