Street Singers of Lucknow and Other Stories - Softcover

Qurrathulain Hyder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8188965537 ISBN 13: 9788188965533

Publisher: Women Unlimited, 2008

Synopsis

This fascinating collection of short stories highlights the innovative genius of this iconoclastic writer as she moves from realism to the fabular, and from history to time-travel. In the title story, woven with social satire and melodrama, an itinerant entertainer becomes a well-known singer, eventually coming back to her Lucknow roots in a subdued, melancholy ending. A cast of characters entertain themselves with gossip and adultery in the lush tranquillity of the tea gardens of East Bengal. At the centre is a mercurial, identity-changing adventures, one who often appears in Hyder's fiction. Another is the memorable Eurasian, Catherine Bolton, who escapes her roots to achieve social success. This versatile writer takes imaginative native flight in unusual stories spanning decades, or even centuries. Her arsenal of techniques - pastiche, satire, collage - takes us to the place most important to her, the human heart in all its varied seasons.

About this title

Product Description:

A collection of short stories which move from realism to the fabular, and from history to time-travel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Women Unlimited
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8188965537
• ISBN 13: 9788188965533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228