About the book
Love is in the air. Come ... discover caring and sharing, loving and being, in nineteen different ways.
Katha Prize Stories 9 brings you some of the best stories from sixteen languages, specially chosen by eminent writers, critics, scholars, and translated with flair. Real stories, they explore the magic of masterly writings that are excitingly new and exuberantly alive - see a butterfly take wing, feel the moon melt in your palm, exult in the energy of fire and ice. Enjoy!
Contents
The nominating editors
The kathaaward winners for 1999
Preface
One night
17
.Headmaster. Prawn, chanachur
23
The eighteenth camel
39
Cigarette in an ashtray
75
The boat
81
The web
101
Panchali
111
The lone feather
117
Butterefly
125
Darwin’s cousin
139
Summer on the island
153
Zameen
167
Black bucks in the bus
179
Ketaki grove
187
Who lives like this?
201
Snehalata
213
The witness
239
The wrong
251
The moon in the earthen pot
281
Contributors’ notes
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