Kleptomania: Ten Stories - Softcover

Padmanabhan, Majula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143031139 ISBN 13: 9780143031130

Publisher: Penguin Global, 2005

Synopsis

In this brilliantly versatile collection of stories from the award-winning author of Harvest, the reader will encounter a range of themes, from murder mystery to science fiction. The author's vision of a post-apocalypse future is dark, but rendered with a rich vein of irony and humour that allows us to roller-coast with her into a world where air and water and the earth itself take on new shades of meaning. Then there are the here-and-now stories of bodies turning up in backyards, of love betrayed and sexuality discovered, of bitter awakenings and upbeat endings. Intelligent, opinionated, and playful, this is a collection that defies limitations of time, space, and imagination to conjure up new morality tales for our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) is a Delhi-based writer and artist. Her comic strips appeared weekly in the Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and daily in the Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup (Kali for Women, 1996), Getting There (Picador UK, 1999) This is Suki! (Duckfoot Press, 2000), and Kleptomania (Penguin Books India, 2004). Harvest (Kali for Women, 1998 and subsequently in three separate international anthologies), her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. Manjula has illustrated twenty-four books for children including her own novels for children, Mouse Attack and Mouse Invaders (Macmillan Children's Books, UK, 2003, 2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143031139
• ISBN 13: 9780143031130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216