My Mother's Lover and Other Stories is a collection of fourteen stories about people who suffer from curious ailments: of a poet whose writing is seen to be an ailment by her family; an insomniac's experience with sleep therapy; a woman's obsession with getting rid of plastic; a woman in Darjeeling
Life over two beers and other stories
โ Scribed by Sanjeev Sanyal
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
The used-car salesman -- The troll -- Of forbidden memories -- The bench by the lake -- Life over two beers -- The reunion -- The caretaker -- Before you judge me -- The conference call -- The intellectuals -- Waiting at the time of cow-dust -- Books -- Exile -- A revolution in humours -- Drivers -- The return of imagination.
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