Download PDF by C S Lakshmi: Fish in a Dwindling Lake

By C S Lakshmi

ISBN-10: 0143433350

ISBN-13: 9780143433354

The physique was once the one fact she knew. It used to be the physique by myself that used to be left, at the same time she went past the body.’
Journeys shape the leitmotif of those dazzling new tales through Ambai. occasionally culminating in an unconventional love affair, a few are notable stories of loyalty and integrity; others contact at the nearly great, absurd element of Mumbai. but others discover the proposal of a healthy self, and its tragic absence from time to time. those tales are illuminated by means of brilliant and strange characters: from an eccentric, penurious singer-couple who undertake an ape as their son, to a male prostitute, who's battered by way of bimbos for no longer giving ‘full’ satisfaction.
Crucially, a number of the tales, just like the identify one, interact uninhibitedly with a woman’s courting to her physique. For Ambai, feminist par excellence, the sensual physique, skilled as a normal panorama altering with age, is even as, the one car of existence and power for mapping the exterior world.

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