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In a Forest: A Deer Stories

 
Lakshmi Holmstrom (Editor) Ambai (Author)
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Though-provoking, witty, inventive and stylish, but also deeply moving, Ambai's stories are among the finest of contemporary short fiction in Tamil. This book is a translation of her third collection of short stories, Kaattil oru maan (2000). Included in this book is also a long story, 'A movement, a folder, some tears', which is not yet part of any collection. Ambai's intricate stories constantly reinvent the short story form, teasing and delighting the reader. They interweave lives, juxtapose the past and the present, the mythical and the contemporary, articulating the real experience of women and communicating their silences in words and images. A mix of narrative forms-- letters, dispatches, journals, emails, memos and articles--adds variety. The stories, located in Tamil Nadu and Mumbai, in Europe as well as the United States, touch upon themes of displacement, exile, and identity; the way people describe themselves and the communities to which they choose to belong. In 'Journey 2', Dinakaran defines himself narrowly as a person from Tirunelveli, who can only face the day after his bath in the river. The narrator of 'A rose-coloured sari' wonders about her individual self, in contrast to the artificial 'Indianness', which she sees in the Festival of India abroad. These translations, profoundly relevant to today's world, will appeal to students and scholars of regional Indian literature, as well as general readers.

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About the author

Lakshmi Holmstrom

Lakshmi Holmstromis a writer and tranlator, who studied at Madras and Oxford. She is the author of Indian Fiction in English: the Novels of R.K. Narayan (Calcutta: Writers' Workshop, 1973), editor of The Inner Courtyard: Short Stories by Indian Women (London: Virga, 1990), and co-editor of Writing from India (Cambridge University Press, 1994), a collection of stories from India for readers aged 14-16. Her retelling of the fifth-century Tamil narrative poems Silappadikaram and Manimekalai was published in 1996 (Madras: Orient Longman). Her main work has been translating the short stories and novels of the major contemporary writers in Tamil: Mauni, Pudumaippittan, Ashokamitran, Sundara Ramaswamy, Ambai, Baama and Imayam. In 2000 she received the Crossword Book Award in India, for her translation of Karukku by Bama. Founder-Trustee of Salidaa (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive). Royal Literary Fund writing fellow, University of East Anglia, 2003-5.

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Bibliographic information

Title In a Forest: A Deer Stories
Format Hardcover
Date published: 04.04.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 0195683145
length x+208p.