02203nam a22002417a 4500 20251206102755.0 220824b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788125056805 Aloy eng 23 820.301 BALA Chandrika Balan 248102 Arya and other stories Hyderabad Oriental Blackswan 2014 xvi,128p PB 21x14cm English 3496 542.00 ₹ 695.00 22% 09-08-2022 She is from a village. She is angry at her conservative mother. She is a flawed activist. She is being judged. She makes compromises. She cannot die, even if she wills it. She chooses to command. Her children want to do away with her. She looks for friendships online. She craves for fame. She musters the courage to pursue her lover. What binds her through all these is her strength; she is indomitable. Arya and Other Stories is a collection of twelve short stories by Chandrika Balan, known in the Malayalam literary world as Chandramati. Balan brings to the reader a glimpse into the world of the woman in a village where feminism has reached. Here men know what feminism is, women know they can be independent; and, children know that their mother is not a caring-bearing machine. Balan’s exploration is into the kind of questions a woman here goes through. Employing different writing styles realism, magic realism and postmodernism - Balan weaves a sensitive fabric that is a study of the contemporary woman. Accompanied by K. Satchidanandan’s scholarly introduction that traces women’s writing tradition in Kerala, this collection of poignant and incisive short stories is bound to interest every reader of fiction and translation Table of Contents Devigramam Arya Bonsai The People’s Court The (Postmodern) Story of Jyoti Viswanath The Fifth One An Optical Illusion The Story of a Poem A Companion for the Twilight Hour Website Sponsors Please The Relevance of Graham Greene in the Life of a Bride English Fiction 55318 English Novel 55319 Malayalam Story Tr in English 55357 Short Stories 55320 ddc BK 224470 224470 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2022-08-11 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 542.00 0 820.301 BALA 075956 2022-08-24 00:00:00 695.00 2022-08-24 BK