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  Image Source: Amazon.in ISBN - 13 : 978-9390327782  Genre: Fiction, Anthology Short Stories, Translated Literature, Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Harper Collins India Price: INR 399/- Book Blurb The tragic love story of a village drummer and his dancer lover...  A long-awaited letter that arrives too late...  A tea-house near Darjeeling, run by a mysterious queen...  When Dhumketu's first collection of short stories, Tankha, came out in 1926, it revolutionized the genre in India. Characterized by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, his fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers. Ratno Dholi brings together the first substantial collection of Dhumketu's work to be available in English. Beautifully translated for a wide new audience by Jenny Bhatt, these much-loved stories - like the finest literature - remain remarka...

About the Book: A cleaning lady frustrated with the lack of manners of the occupants of the building sets out to teach them a lesson or two. Philandering ways and addiction to alcohol force a marriage to flounder and the wife to seek divorce. In Sakhalin, the land of opportunities, a girl from the Russian hinterland flits from one man to another before settling down. A group of friends becomes victim to street hooliganism in the capital city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, while a young British girl succumbs to the vile machinations of a local Russian, jealous of her success, leading to her deportation. Tragic fate awaits a Russian girl who leaves her boyfriend for a seaman. Globetrotting for Love and Other Stories from Sakhalin Island is a brutal, yet honest compilation of stories told in a style that not only pounds on the reader’s sensibilities and emotions but claws at the soul. The place is as much a character as the people who inhabit this collection. These are tales of love, lu...

ABOUT THE BOOK Image Source: Goodreads.com The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told showcases Odia’s greatest storytellers ranging from literary masters such as Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gopinath Mohanty, Reba Ray, and Manoj Das to contemporary stalwarts like Pratibha Ray, and Nrusingha Tripathy, among others. A young woman who was dragged away by a crocodile mysteriously resurfaces after a decade in Manoj Das’s ‘Mrs Crocodile’; a pet goat let loose in a government office causes amusement and chaos in Gopinath Mohanty’s ‘The Solution’; Godavaris Mahapatra’s ‘Maguni’s Bullock Cart’ deals with the anxieties of a bullock cart driver stuck between the trappings of traditions and modernity—the stories in this anthology traverse an exciting range of themes from fantasy to reality, and bone-chilling horror to rib-tickling humour. Timeless, evocative and striking, The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told offers a rich selection of stories that are unrivalled in their range, style and complexit...

About the book Do you know what you really are? Or has life not tested you yet! 8 stories 8 situations 8 emotions 

About the Book Image Source: Amazon.in Ruskin Bond is the most addictive and entertaining writer in modern Indian literature. The author of over a hundred novels and short-story collections, his fiction is especially celebrated for the unforgettable misfits, Dreamers, small-time con artists, rapscallions, thieves and drifters who populate it. For the first time ever, a gallery of rascals brings together the most memorable rogues to feature in Ruskin Bond’s fiction.  A few brand new stories—‘a man called brain’, ‘Sher Singh and the hot-water bottle’, ‘crossing the road’— headline this collection and rub shoulders with much-loved tales like ‘the thief story’, ‘The boy who broke the Bank’, ‘tigers for dinner’ and ‘a case for Inspector Lal’. thrilling and effortlessly readable, the thirty stories in this book show exactly why Ruskin Bond’s fiction is irresistible.

Introduction Copyrights (C) Privy Trifles ISBN:978-93-5302-325-6 Genre:  Fiction/ Anthology Publishers: Harper Collins Price: Rs. 399/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN:978-9353023478 Genre:  Fiction Publishers: Harper Collins India Price: Rs. 499/- (I got the book for review from the publisher)

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-93-86215-34-5 Genre:  Fiction  Publishers: Pan Macmillan Price:  Rs. 399/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN :    978-9386-2287-03 Genre:  Fiction / Anthologies Publishers: Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction ISBN :  978-9386021144 Genre: Fiction/Anthology Publishers: Aleph Price:  Rs. 699/-  ( I got the book for review from the publisher )

Introduction ISBN :  978-8129150400 Genre:  Fiction/ Anthology Publishers: Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

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Introduction ISBN :  978-81-291-4920-6 Genre:  Anthology Publishers: Rupa Publications Price:  Rs. 195/-  ( I got the book for review from the  publisher )

Introduction ISBN:  978-9386228499 Genre: F iction / Anthology Publishers: Juggernaut Price:  Rs. 399/-  ( I got the book for review from the publishe r )

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Introduction Source: Amazon.in ISBN:  978-1616957964 Genre: Fiction /Anthology Publishers:  Rupa Publishing House Price:  Rs. 295/-  ( I got the book for review from the publishe r )

Introduction Source: Goodreads.com ISBN:  978-8193432006 Genre:   Non-Fiction / India  Publishers:  Westland  Price:  Rs. 275/-  ( I got the book for review from the   publisher )

Introduction ISBN:  9780998364117 Genre:  Fiction/ Sci-fi / Romance Publishers:  Crazy 8 Publishers Price:  $4.98/-  ( I got the book for review from the  b00k r3vi3ws ) Love science fiction stories that all include elements of Love, Murder & Mayhem? Then welcome to the latest anthology from Crazy 8 Press! This amazing collection from 15 all-star authors will delight you with superhero and supervillain stories. AI, off-world, and space cruiser stories. We’ve also got private eyes, sleep surrogates, time travel, an aliens/monsters mash-up and … one DuckBob! With tales ranging from wild and wacky, dark and gritty, to heartbreaking and fun, take the deadly leap with authors Meriah Crawford, Paige Daniels, Peter David, Mary Fan, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman Paul Kupperberg, Karissa Laurel, Kelly Meding, Aaron Rosenberg, Hildy Silverman, Lois Spangler, Patrick Thomas, and editor Russ Colchamiro. You’ll never look at Love, ...

Introduction ISBN: 9789386305466 Genre: Fiction / Anthology Publishers: Story Mirror Price:  Rs.190/-  ( I got the book for review from the author ) A naive girl of eighteen is trapped in a dungeon, which changes her and her capturer’s life forever. Afar, tucked away in the sleepy terrains of a town in Kerala, a married woman is determined to revisit a forbidden part of her past. A model-turned-MBA aspirant is scourged mentally for a decision she almost made three years back. Back in the less happening village of Kanyapuram, an aspiring author loses a copy of her very first manuscript. True to its title, ‘The Inimitable Chaos of life’ is an amalgamation of enthralling stories borrowed from the chaotic pages of life, which allure you to relive the multitude of unique emotions humans are made of. Behind the Book Source: Goodreads.com