Islands: Short Stories - Softcover

Keki N. Daruwalla

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ISBN 10: 9384030325 ISBN 13: 9789384030322

Publisher: Westland Tranquebar, 2014

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Islands Short Stories Through these stories, each linked, each disparate, Daruwalla asks what it means to abandon an island or inhabit one. He also asks what it means to allow an island to 'sail within us'. For each of the characters is on a private journey, a reclusive flight inwards, towards an isle of peace, an isle beyond questions of faith and unbelief, an isle past remembrance and forgetting. Ultimately, each character is an island unto himself or hersef, from the retiring vagrant on Bird Island, to Dinaz, feeling her way on her own through a fast receding past, to the wild Khampa, severed from his people, who realizes there must be worse things than being alone, but I don't know what they are...

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