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No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories

Jayant Kaikini

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Very few writers have caught the absurdities, pathos and comic turmoil that drive life in an Indian city today with the vibrancy of Jayant Kaikini. Girish Karnad Jayant Kaikini's compassionate gaze takes in the people in the corners of the city, the young woman yearning for love, the certified virgin who must be married off again, the older woman and her medicines. Tejaswini Niranjana's translations bring the rhythms of Kannada into English with admirable efficiency. This is a Bombay book, a Mumbai book, a Momoi book, a Mhamai book, and it is not to be missed. Jerry Pinto No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks. From Irani caf's to chawls, old cinema houses to reform homes, Jayant Kaikini seeks out and illuminates moments of existential anxiety and of tenderness. In these sixteen stories, gaps in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed, but for this city where the surreal meets the everyday.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Nov 25th, 2017
  • Pages: 240
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.81in - 5.06in - 0.55in - 0.52lb
  • EAN: 9789352645879
  • Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age

About the Author

Kaikini, Jayant: - Jayant Kaikini is the recipient of many awards, including four Karnataka Sahitya Academy awards and the Atta Galatta Prize for Fiction. He is the three-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for best lyrics in Kannada. For her translations, Tejaswini Niranjana received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989.

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Megha Majumdar
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Megha Majumdar is a novelist.

"Tales of everyday life that open like windows onto universal truths . . . . Highly recommend." Thank you @TheBookMaven for including NO PRESENTS PLEASE, Jayant Kaikini's collection of stories translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana https://t.co/T1IS4VxJa3

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Indira Chandrasekhar
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7 years

Indira Chandrasekhar-scientist; writer; founder/principal editor #OutofPrint Magazine. Books: #Pangea (ed), TRP; #Polymorphism, HCI. https://t.co/txmkICgjAf

With Jayant Kaikini. Prior to a discussion on his collection 'No Presents Please' translated by @TejaswiniNiranjana. https://t.co/EkjWFtiSeC

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Translations from Asia + Africa. We are: @kv_alfaro @ticecin @abbaskins Trà My Hickin, Inara, Amandine Forest @saba_a_ahmed & Soraya Gilanni Viljoen

The winner of the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose is NO PRESENTS PLEASE by Jayant Kaikini, translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana (@TejaswiniNiran1) Fantastic news! Published by @CatapultStory in the US, and TAP in UK 🙌@LitTranslate 🙌 https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2021/10/16/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2021-national-translation-award-in-prose-no-presents-please/

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