The White Chiffon Sari

By Mithra Venkatraj

Book Overview

Spanning a range of locales, time periods, themes, and styles, no two stories here are alike. Told subtly and with empathy, the stories are multifaceted and multilayered and explore a wide range of subjects, such as the following: - The complex emotions of a growing-up boy as he observes a young woman's bright life being blighted by her jealous sister. - Innocent children watch uncomprehendingly the misfortunes of a woman whom they love. She is an unintended victim of her feudal master's machinations. - The unconventional but abiding love of two girls for each other, with the witness to their lives having issues of her own. - Age, greed, and time ruining a once-beautiful house and its proud owner - The delusional aspirations of a woman and her bewildering inner world. - An ageing woman seeing herself and the life spent in the mirror of modernity and seeking change. - An endearing story of a child-bride of earlier times. - A young woman overcoming induced prejudices and rediscovering the preciousness of a once-spurned relationship. The stories infuse newness into many enduring and vast themes, like relationships, prejudices, a judgmental society, of changing conventions, and in general, of life as it goes on.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148281952X
• ISBN13: 9781482819526
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"