"The Wedding of Zein" unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece _Season of Migration to the North_ is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, an
Wedding cancelled and other stories
โ Scribed by Shobhaa De
- Publisher
- S&S India
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Series
- Lockdown Liaisons 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 8194628911
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โฆ Synopsis
As the world is shaken by a virus, Shobhaa De - a writer who understands the human heart and how it beats - felt the need to document not just what she is going through personally but what the entire world is experiencing. And out of this need emerged many unique narratives ...
Lockdown Liaisons is a collection of short stories, from the varying perspectives of both men and women - young and old, brave and cowardly, cheerful and weighed down - each story an unique offering from a writer who understands how very fragile human relationships can be as they break, suffer and are redefined under trying circumstances.
Explore, read and understand the subterranean world of shifting emotions during Covid-19, through stories that will speak to you. There is a woman with a young child who discovers that she doesn't love her husband after all, there is an elderly woman who lives alone in a building who can't bear her nosey neighbours, there is...
โฆ Subjects
Electronic books
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