The Dark River and Other Stories

By Krishan Chander| Suresh Kohli

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About the book

Krishan Chander is a stalwart of the Progressive Writers’ Movement and a venerable name in Urdu and Hindi short story writing. His timeless stories astound both in terms of quality and sheer volume, yet he remains under-read outside his own languages. With simplicity and stylistic flair, this much-awaited volume brings together a novella and three stories that represent the best of his oeuvre. In ‘The Dark River’, a gothic tale of love and murder unfurls amidst great beauty. It will take all of Lata’s strength to navigate the underbelly of Mumbai with nothing but a vermillion dream in ‘Same Old Desire’. In ‘Plums’, the narrator realizes that there are things that time cannot touch: the citrus mischief of love, memories and plums. Even the most hardened criminal cowersbefore the silence of those who havenothing more to lose in ‘Breaking the Strike’. Varied and evocative stories that carry the delicate essence of Urdu and Hindi into another language.

Pages: 160

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Krishan Chander

THE DARK RIVER AND OTHER STORIES KRISHAN CHANDER (1914-77) was one of India’s foremost authors writing in Hindi and Urdu. He was a prolific writer, penning over twenty novels, thirty collections of short stories and scores of radio plays. He also wrote screenplays for Hindi movies. Krishan Chander’s novels, including the classic Ek Gadhe Ki Sarguzasht (Autobiography of a Donkey), have been translated into over sixteen Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English. SURESH KOHLI (born in 1947) is a poet, writer, translator, editor, literary critic and film historian with more than thirty-five published works including five volumes of poetry and a novel. He is also a short and documentary film-maker, with over a hundred films to his credit that have been screened apart from India in Australia, France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and Nepal. He lives in Delhi and currently working on a long abandoned novel and a collection of short stories.