In The Shadow Of The Sun

Author: Prafulla Roy

Publisher: Roli Books

ISBN: 8174363335

Format: Hardback

About this Book:
Here are sixteen of the finest of Prafulla Roy’s short stories, made fascinating merely by the realities of everyday life and the quirkiness of human character. This combination of the mundane with the odd, and sometimes the exotic, is Roy’s simple recipe for great literary interest. We have a jungle-beater-cum-stray-dog-catcher and his role in the birth of a child; we have two strangers enjoying a passing moment of love after a vicious fight with an animal over food; we have a little girl—the daughter of a prostitute—who, in her own way, reaches the moon with Neil Armstrong. Then there are stories of the dreams—of beggars, of bird-catchers, of a tiger-man and of a would-be film extra. There are stories of self-sacrifice on the part of those who have nothing, and of the exploitation of the weak by those who have everything.