Street Singers of Lucknow and Other Stories - Softcover

Qurratulain Hyder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8188965537 ISBN 13: 9788188965533

Publisher: Women Unlimited and Kali for Women, 2008

Synopsis

Language: EnglishPages: 244About The BookThis fascinating collection of short stories highlights the innovative genius of this iconoclastic writer as she moves from realism to the fabular, and form history to time-travel.In the title story, woven with social satire and melodrama, and itinerant entertainer become a well-Known singer, eventually coming back to her Lucknow roots in a subdued, melancholy ending. A cast of characters entertain themselves with gossip and adultery in the lush tranquility of the tea gardens of East Bengal. At the centre is a mercurial, identify-changing adventuress, one who often appears in Hyder’s fiction. Another is the memorable Eurasian, Catherine Bolton, Who escapes her roots to achieve social success.This versatile writer takes imaginative flight in unusual stories spanning decades, or even centuries. Her arsenal of techniques-pastiche, satire, memoir, collage-take us to the place most important

About this edition

• Publisher: Women Unlimited and Kali for Women
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8188965537
• ISBN 13: 9788188965533
• Binding: Paperback