A Rag Doll After My Heart - A Poetic Novel

First published in Marathi in 1966, this unique novella in free verse tells an age-old story: that of a woman s deep desire to be a mother. Setting out life as a game in which the moves are predetermined, and yet where rules exist only to be twisted, perhaps negotiated, sometimes even changed, Anuradha Vaidya deftly engages the reader in a sort of play, suggesting a joining of the dots, a connecting of line endings that lead the reader deeper into the story. As the story traces a relationship that begins with unquestioning love that, over time, transforms into tension and distance, the reader is encouraged to linger, or jump back and forth across stanzas and lines, to navigate, interpret, and savour the beauty of the expression, both in the turn of phrase and the coinage of new words. The sheer beauty of the almost allegorical imagery of life as a game played on the worldly board by people who are actually pawns, marks every page of this poetic narrative."

About the author

Anuradha Vaidya is an award-winning writer of short stories, poems, novels, and children's stories.

Product details

• Authors: Anuradha Vaidya
• Assisted by: Shruti Nargundkar (Translation)
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9789383074099
• ISBN: 978-93-83074-09-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies