LIFE ON MARS: COLLECTED STORIES

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Author: Namita Gokhale
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
ISBN-13: 9789363360402
Publishing year: 20 December 2024
No of pages: 200
Weight: 210g
Book binding: Hardcover

Namita Gokhale is a writer and festival director. Her work spans various genres, including novels, short stories, Himalayan studies, mythology and books for young readers.

<p>Since she published her sensational debut novel, Paro: <b>Dreams of Passion</b>, in <b>1984</b>, <b>Namita Gokhale </b>has produced fiction that follows no easy rules, unafraid to look life in the eye and speak with equal honesty about its seductions and sorrows, its grace and absurdity.</p><p>Two lonely people connect briefly during the Covid pandemic. A woman finds companionship with an unusual young man the same age as her absent sons. A one-night stand in Rishikesh ends in a surprise not once, but twice. Kunti and Gandhari, queens in the evening of their lives, try to cope with their private griefs after the slaughters of the Kurukshetra war.</p><p> A swan relates the story of the doomed lovers Nala and Damayanti. After one man drowns and another is saved, a stone reflects on the inner lives of men and stones. Rewarding and often startling, these are memorable stories by one of India’s most daring and talented writers.</p>