02555oam 2200493Ia 450 991042495000332120200608020818.00-472-12771-30-89148-090-010.3998/mpub.165021(CKB)5590000000005150(OCoLC)1202437624(MdBmJHUP)muse93194(MiAaPQ)EBC6380741(Au-PeEL)EBL6380741(MiU)10.3998/mpub.165021(ScCtBLL)cc7b91ef-4a9b-429f-9e8d-63fd45dce52f(ODN)ODN0006091206(EXLCZ)99559000000000515020041203d2005 kb 1engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe train that had wings selected short stories of M. Mukundan /translated from the Malayalam by Donald R. Davis, Jr1st ed.Ann Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,2005.1 online resource (ix, 135 p.)0-472-90167-2 Suggestions for further reading: pages 133-135.Office -- Parrots -- Radha, just Radha -- Bathroom -- Tea -- Five-and-a-half-year old -- They are singing -- Piss -- Breast milk -- I, the scavenger -- River and boat -- The seventh flower -- The train that had wings -- Tonsured life -- Delhi 1981 -- O prostitutes, a temple for you.The Train That Had Wings presents modern life in Kerala in terms of a shared but tragically compromised humanity. Mukundan dares to look beneath the routines and facades of everyday life in order to probe depth of sin, greed, and hypocrisy but also to rediscover what brings joy and hope.Sixteen short story translations and a critical introduction, offering examples of Mukundan's realistic, existentialist, psychedelic, and parabolic stories, show his range and talent for the very short story. If Hawthorne wrote "twice told tales," Mukundan writes half-told tales, stories that jump in the middle, stomp around for just a minute, and leap away almost before the reader can settle in. Half-told, but a powerful and infectious half.Kerala (India)Fiction894.812371FIC000000FIC054000LAN000000bisacshMukundan Eṃ.1943-670043Davis Donald R(Donald Richard),1970-MiUMiUBOOK9910424950003321The Train That Had Wings2042622UNINA