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Baby Doll : Stories

By Gracy| Fathima E.V.

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About the book

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.

Pages: 244

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Gracy

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).

 

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Fathima E.V.

Fathima E.V. is a writer and translator. Her translation of Subhash Chandran’s A Preface to Man (2016) won the V. Abdulla Translation Award in 2017 and the 2018 Crossword Book Award for Fiction in Translation. She is a co-translator of Delhi: A Soliloquy by M. Mukundan. Fathima is currently working as an Associate Professor at KMM Govt. Women’s College, Kannur, Kerala. She did her MA and PhD from the University of Calicut, and her CertTESOL from St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Her poems have appeared in international journals and anthologies.

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Gracy is one of the finest practitioners of the short story in modern Malayalam literature. Complex, compelling and shocking, her stories grip you by their narrative energy even as they stand your world on its head by their eerie, unsettling vision. With unerring perception, she captures the Indian woman as she flies through nothingness and with nothing to hold on to. These translations dexterously transport into English the startling, surreal and beautiful world of Gracy’s writing. - PAUL ZACHARIA

Gracy is easily one of the most engaging fiction writers in Malayalam, dealing with an astonishing range of themes, in a variety of voices from the tragic to the ironic. She can be endlessly playful, cleverly mischievous, enchantingly magical, and at times even scarily nightmarish. The pangs of growing up, the unpredictability of desire, the fragility of relationships – Gracy deals with all of them in her uniquely nuanced narratives that laugh at the follies of men and women, their self-love and the anxieties it generates, without ever looking down on them, biblical resonances often contributing to their depth. Her characters are unforgettable, and the situations strange and familiar at the same time. Fathima E.V.'s selection in Baby Doll reflects the author's range, while her translation captures the subtle twists in these intensely human tales, making them perfectly faithful and yet highly readable. - K. SATCHIDANANDAN

Here is an author of extraordinary literary poise who has created many stories that have emboldened my generation to rebel and revolt against the violence thrust upon our lives, eventually liberating our souls from the confinements of the male gaze. Together, these stories present an intimate chronicle of the world we live in, depicting our times with amazing clarity and dexterity, in a deceptively simple but searingly truthful manner. Beautifully and skilfully translated, these stories transform the everyday world and ordinary lives into insightful representations of intriguing human conditions. - K.R. MEERA

Gracy’s ability to express the complexities of the feminine inner self through simple narrative techniques, the compact structure of her stories, and her literary expeditions into the depths of contemporary life set her apart from the rest of our modern writers. - SUBHASH CHANDRAN

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