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No Presents Please : Mumbai Stories
By Jayant Kaikini| Tejaswini Niranjana
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About the book
Winner: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019No 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.
Pages: 240
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Language: English
Jayant Kaikini
Jayant Kaikini is the recipient of many awards, including four Karnataka Sahitya Academy awards and the Atta Galatta Prize for Fiction. He is the three-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for best lyrics in Kannada. For her translations, Tejaswini Niranjana received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.