Download or read book Paradise and Other Stories written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Balzac could not have done better’ —The Financial Express In this sparkling collection of stories, India’s best-known writer addresses some pertinent questions: Why do we believe in miracles? Can a horoscope guarantee the perfect wife? Is the Kamasutra a useful manual for newlyweds? Margaret Bloom arrives in Haridwar from New York to save her soul. But she soon discovers that there are temptations even on the banks of the holy Ganga. Madan Mohan Pandey, amateur astrologer and scholar of ancient Hindu texts, finds to his horror that his doe-like bride is not quite what he had expected. Pious Zora Singh, Pride of the Nation, rumoured to be a chaar sau bees and a womanizer, silences his detractors by earning the Bharat Ratna. Devi Lal makes his peace with a fickle God when his daughter-in-law delivers a son, following secret visits to the Peer Sahib’s tomb. And Vijay Lall, emboldened by his miraculous escape from death, decides to act upon his silent obsession with Karuna Chaudhury, which takes him to a shifty soothsayer behind the Khan Market loo. Khushwant Singh returns to the short story after decades to deliver a truly memorable collection—humorous, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, ribald and even, at times, tender.

Download or read book Finnegan s Parish Other Stories written by John Dahlgren and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you create a whole new world religion for a bet? What would you do if you stumbled upon the legendary fountain of youth but found - too late! - there was an unexpected side-effect? How would you react if you went for a job interview and discovered the interviewer was a bit, well, odd? Do your next-door neighbors have a secret so mystifying and enthralling that you're willing to risk your sanity to find out what it is? Filled with larger-than-life characters, unexpected twists and side-splitting satirical humor, these stories by John Dahlgren will leave you laughing, pondering and possibly outraged . and perhaps make you think twice before you next open your bathroom door.

Download or read book The Star Caf Other Stories written by Mary Caponegro and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking debut, The Star Cafe heralds "an utterly original artist, already writing with something like mastery".--Robert Kelly.

Download or read book Menopausal Musings Other Stories written by Elias Sassoon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menopausal Musings is a collection of small novellas. Each novella follows the inner world of one character's contorted thoughts as they cope with the crisis of middle age. We observe these afflicted people as they exist at different times of day. All are urban characters who live alone in New York City. All are trapped within the walls of their apartments and trapped in their minds and unable to escape. We listen and observe as their minds twirl with hopes, dreams, bitterness, and anger. We cringe as we watch their souls cringe because of isolation from family, friends, and the rest of humanity. They're humans set adrift in a unforgiving world with its billions of unmarked faces. Yet, their pain is our pain; their longing is our longing. And, that is the whole point.

Download or read book Coitus Interruptus and Other Stories written by Malachi Edwin Vethamani and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cheese and Other Stories written by Deryck Whittaker and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheese! The smiley face we accept as a universal sign of happiness belies the twists and downturns of not-quite-everyday life. Through these witty, visceral short stories, Deryck Whittaker takes us on a bittersweet journey across the globe, introducing a set of characters at odds with themselves and the times. In locations as disparate as Norway, Mali and Argentina, the jungle of the art world, the good are generally rewarded, while the boorish and greedy receive their comeuppance. Sometimes cautionary, often hilarious, the stories may end (or begin) with murder, indulge in love and lust, or describe in exquisite detail moments of apparent ordinariness. Throughout Cheese and Other Stories Whittaker’s elegant wordplay and acute observations of the human condition are superb.

Download or read book THE BIG BOOK OF MALAYSIAN HORROR STORIES written by Amir Muhammad and published by Buku Fixi. This book was released on with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BIG BOOK OF MALAYSIAN HORROR STORIES takes us from terrors that are mythological and historical to contemporary and technological. The biggest Fixi Novo anthology yet is set in various states in Malaysia, but the most common states are Darul Distress and Negeri Scary. These brand-new stories are complemented by Chin Yew's equally spooky illustrations. Featuring the following writers: ATIKAH Wahid BISSME S. Adrian CHASE Joni CH'NG Eileyn CHUA CHUA Kok Yee HADI M. Nor ISMIM Putera IZADDIN Syah Yusof Nat KANG Venoo KUPPUSAMY LAI May Senn Joshua LIM (twice!) Ethan MATISA MUTHUSAMY Ramiah NADIAH Zakaria NURUL HAFIZAH Mat Kamil PAUL GNANASELVAM RAJA UMMI NADRAH Reuel RAWAT RIZAL Ramli SAAT Omar Nathaniel SARIO TINA Ishak Terence TOH Malachi Edwin VETHAMANI WONG Jo-yen YANNA Hashri Collin YEOH

Download or read book The Second Link written by Daryl Lim Wei Jie and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 marks the 60th year since the formation of the Federation of Malaysia, comprising the Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak – and Singapore. For Malaysians, 1963 is of profound national significance. For Singaporeans, the more memorable year might be 1965, the year of separation and subsequent independence. Yet for two fateful years, the destinies of the two countries were conjoined. The kinship, affinity – and tensions – are still keenly felt today. This collection brings together writers from both countries to reflect creatively and critically upon this sense of entwinement – to celebrate, to reflect, and to rue, in the tradition of volumes such as The Second Tongue (ed. Edwin Thumboo, 1976). Featured writers include: Anitha Devi Pillai, Anna Onni, Arjun Sai Krishnan, Benedict Lim, Brandon Liew, Clara Chow, Clarissa Oon, Daryl Li, Elaine Chiew, Heng Jia Min, Ho Kin Yunn, ila, Jocelyn Marcia Ng, Jonathan Chan, Joshua Ip, Kevin Martens Wong, Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Mohamed Shaker, Ng Yi-Sheng, Noor Iskandar, Paul Augustin, Rachel Fung, Sharmini Aphrodite, Sheena Gurbakhash, Sofia Mariah Ma, Sreedhevi Iyer, Sumitra Selvaraj, Tse Hao Guang, Yu Kai Tan, Zhang Ruihe

Download or read book Godfoolery written by John Fulling Crosby and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godfoolery: Beyond Belief and Unbelief is for religious skeptics who, like the author, have trouble accepting canned answers and confessions and creeds. As such, this volume of essays can be read independently of each other. Questions dealing with creation ex nihilo, biblical criticism, the higher and lower criticism, tests of truth, tribalism and its relation to white supremacy, as well as death and its impact on the meaning of life.

Download or read book Waiting for the End written by Earl G. Ingersoll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels within the context of a half century of theorizing about the function of ending in narrative. That theorizing about ending generated a powerful dynamic a quarter-century ago with the advent of feminist criticism of masculinist readings of the role played by ending in fiction. Feminists such as Theresa de Lauretis in 1984 and more famously Susan Winnett in her 1991 PMLA essay, Coming Unstrung, were leading voices in a swelling chorus of theorist pointing out the masculinist bias of ending in narrative. With the entry of feminist readings of ending, it became inevitable that criticism of fiction would become gendered through the recognition of difference transcending a simple binary of female/male to establish a spectrum of masculine to feminine endings, regardless of the sex of the writer. Accordingly, Waiting for the End examines pairs of novels - one pair by Margaret Atwood and one by Ian McEwan - to demonstrate how a writer can offer endings at either end of the gender spectrum.

Download or read book The Five Dollar Smile written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title story—written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations—a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. Tharoor’s admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes “How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink” a delightful homage, while “The Temple Thief,” “The Simple Man,” and “The Political Murder” bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, “Friends,” “The Pyre,” and “The Professor’s Daughter,” are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. “The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer” is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer’s conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist.

Download or read book Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives written by Marilyn Farwell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable? Marilyn Farwell here examines the work of such writers as Adrienne Rich, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jeanette Winterson, Gloria Naylor, and Marilyn Hacker to address these questions. Dividing their writings into two genres--the romantic story and the heroic, or quest, story, Farwell addresses some of the most problematic issues at the intersection of literature, sex, gender, and postmodernism. Illustrating how the generational conflict between the lesbian- feminists of twenty years ago and the queer theorists of today stokes the critical fires of contemporary lesbian and literary theory, Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives concludes by arguing for a broad and generous definition of lesbian writing.

Download or read book Christian Short Stories Intrigues Poems Phrases and Christian Literature written by Charles Brown and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a MUST read. Anyone who care about the greatness of the United States and believe in the resurrection of Jesus the Christ will surely add to their stature by reading this book. This book speak to how Jesus Christ approached the social issues we face today and how the United States is blessed through the recognition of her failures.

Download or read book The Story the Soldiers Wouldn t Tell written by Thomas P. Lowry and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the secret life of the men in blue and gray.

Download or read book Feeling Clucky a small town magical story with chickens and a mystery written by Lulu M. Sylvian and published by Moon Tan Press. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a secret lurking just around the corner in Belvoir County. Why does it feel like everyone knows what it is and isn’t telling Sylvie? Sylvie is on to something, at least she thinks she is. Her research of folklore and folk songs has brought her to the small college campus in Belvoir County. She really wants access to the archives, but they won’t let her in. There is a secret she is close to finding out, it’s just beyond her fingertips. She feels like everyone knows it, and they are keeping it from her. Small town magic meets graduate studies research, with a hot librarian.

Download or read book F Scott Fitzgerald written by Nicolas Tredell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of critical responses to F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby," including both contemporary and later criticism; and includes brief biographical information about Fitzgerald

Download or read book The Novels of Jeanette Winterson written by Merja Makinen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide brings together, in an approachable form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Covering all of Winterson's work, from Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to The PowerBook, Merja Makinen traces the early review reception of each novel on its publication and considers it alongside the larger critical debates that have subsequently evolved. Makinen follows the controversial critical analysis of Winterson as a lesbian writer, and develops the examination of the postmodern aspects of her work, whether as postmodern or post-Modern. Including a brief discussion of Winterson's most recent novel, Lighthouse Keeping, this is an indispensable guide for anyone studying, or simply interested in, the work of one of Britain's most successful contemporary authors.