Release and other Stories by Rakhshanda Jalil


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ProductID: 31179 - Hardcover - 121 Pages (Year: 2011)
HarperCollins ~ ISBN: 9789350290699

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Stories that bring to life the complexities involved in being Indian and Muslim. In this collection of stories, Rakhshanda Jalil draws attention to the lives of the Indian Muslim, not the marginalized or ghettoized Muslims of popular stereotype but ordinary, mainstream ones.

The minutiae of everyday life are captured as layers of identities are peeled back to reveal people who are strangely recognizable in their ordinariness. Perfectly engraved cameos of grief and separation, frailty and strength, resilience and defeat, revenge and jealousy glow in the tautly strung warp and weft of her stories.

While the title story is an exquisite invocation of a vanished world, the others deal with contemporary, commonplace issues. The illusion of domestic harmony, the discord that breeds within a marriage, the definitions of success or failure; the inexplicability of what attracts one person to another ?the author explores all this and more as she lays bare a world at once familiar and little known.

Table of Contents

1. A Mighty Heart
2. The Failure
3. The Perfect Couple
4. The Strange Man
5. The Stalker
6. A Real Women
7. The Incident of the Frozen Snake
8. Release
9. The Break-Up
10. A Holiday Gone-Awry

About the Author

RAKHSHANDA JALIL is a freelance book-editor. She has taught English at the universities of Delhi and Aligarh and worked for various publishing houses. She reviews literary works, translates from Hindi and Urdu into English and writes for major newpaper supplements and journals. Her translation of Premchand's stories 'Thje Temple and the Mosque' was published in 1992. She has also translated a collection of satirical writing in Hindi by Asghar Wajahat, entitled 'Lies: Half Told'.

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