Fish in a Dwindling Lake - Softcover

Lakshmi, Dr. C.S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143433350 ISBN 13: 9780143433354

Verlag: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD., 2012

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The body was the only truth she knew. It was the body alone that was left, even as she went beyond the body.' Journeys form the leitmotif of these astonishing new stories by Ambai. Sometimes culminating in an unconventional love affair, some are extraordinary tales of loyalty and integrity; others touch on the almost fantastic, absurd aspect of Mumbai. Yet others explore the notion of a wholesome self, and its tragic absence at times. These stories are illuminated by vivid and unusual characters: from an eccentric, penurious singer-couple who adopt an ape as their son, to a male prostitute, who is battered by bimbos for not giving 'full' satisfaction. Crucially, some of the stories, like the title one, engage uninhibitedly with a woman's relationship to her body. For Ambai, feminist par excellence, the sensual body, experienced as a natural landscape changing with age, is at the same time, the only vehicle of life and tool for mapping the external world.

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• Verlag: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0143433350
• ISBN 13: 9780143433354
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172