The Shoot: Stories

By Dhruba Hazarika

Cruelty and tenderness, violence and retribution, loneliness and unexpected miracles of silent love play out in these stories set in semi-rural Assam. As the barriers between human beings and birds and animals fall away-and river, forest and moon breathe-solitary men and women, foresters, hunters, boatmen and awkward boys make connections with civets, sparrows, rhinos and elephants; leopards, snakes, horses and dogs. And sometimes with themselves.

Deeply moving and humane, and equally gripping, this collection contains perhaps the finest fiction about the natural world-and our place in it-that you will read by a contemporary Indian writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354477186
• ISBN13: 9789354477188
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"