Day of Reckoning: Stories

By Nayantara Sahgal

Even before Indian writing in English became the fashionable thing it is today, Nayantara Sahgal was a name to reckon with internationally. In Day of Reckoning: Stories, her first collection of short stories, one finds a familiar engagement with society, human rights and politics, and a Sahgalesque subversive take on tradition. A foreign journalist tries to make sense of a rapidly changing India even as a leading political leader is assassinated in public; a Naxalite who believes in scientific killing of the class enemy and the cult of violence is shattered when it boomerangs on him; a favourite aunt assigned the task of getting her young nephew back to India from London for an arranged marriage finds more than she had bargained for. This is a thought-provoking, yet disturbing collection of stories from a master storyteller. Brimming with rare insights on the human condition and informed by the changing political and cultural ambience of the nation, Day of Reckoning is a must-have addition to every library.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9351772160
• ISBN13: 9789351772163
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"