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✍ Scribed by Kaikini, Jayant

Book ID: 110462341
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Tongue: English
Weight: 185 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9789353024932

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✦ Synopsis

No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks. From Irani cafes to chawls, old cinema houses to reform homes, Jayant Kaikini seeks out and illuminates moments of existential anxiety and of tenderness. In these sixteen stories, gaps in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed, but for this city where the surreal meets the everyday.

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