A Secret Life on the Alaknanda and Other Stories

This collection of remarkable stories depicts realistic vignettes of Himalayan life;from the predicament of hill women to the preservation of hill ecology and thedevastation that callous commercialism brings to them. Standing out among thesevignettes are stories of lust that depict a monk who has the passionate desires of anyyoung man or nostalgia about courtesan life in Nawabi Lucknow, the tragic life of avillage woman who becomes the fourth wife of an impotent man or the story of anestranged wife whose husband lives the secret life of a deviant in the title story andthe touching love between a scrap seller and his wife. A Secret Life on TheAlaknanda depicts various facets of life with a sensitivity that makes this collectionmemorable. Told in a traditional narrative this is a collection worthy of one's time.

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