The Japanese wife
By: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers India, India Today Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9788172239039
Description: Like 'The Japanese Wife', the other stories in this collection are also about residents and non-residents. In 'Grateful Ganga', an American rock queen shares her love tunes with a Punjabi businessman even as she mourns her dead husband; in 'Snakecharmer', a retired Israeli American professor arrives in India with the intention of committing suicide, only to be saved by a snakecharmer's daughter. Father Tito, the emigre Yugoslav of Father Tito's Onion Rings, is haunted by the Holocaust as he intercedes between Hindu and Muslim rioters. The stories here are about unexpected love and accidental gifts; about finding oneself among strangers; about living elsewhere and living in one's dreams. They parade a full cast of priests, whores, rebels, dead emperors, bush soldiers, poachers, conmen and connoisseurs - angels and demons rubbing shoulders with those whose lives are never quite as ordinary as they seem.
Table of contents: title: The Japanese wife; title: Grateful Ganga; title: Lenin's café; title: Lotus-dragon; title: Snakecharmer; title: Long live Imelda Marcos; title: The accountant; title: Tiger! Tiger!; title: Father Tito's onion rings; title: Miss Annie; title: The last dalang; title: The pearlfisher.