Video - stories

Zusatztext “Magical. . . . Video is that rarity! a first collection whose every story charts new areas in human relationships.” – The Washington Post “Echo[es] the magic realism and mythic overtones of Arundhati Roy and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. . . . Video reveals the budding talent of an assured! accomplished writer.” – San Francisco Chronicle “The writing is juicy; the details lovely! luscious bits of description that waft pungently from the Subcontinent with true Indian-style density.” – Los Angeles Times “Sure-footed and telling! filled with powerful observations and sentences of lyric beauty. . . . [ Video ] revels in . . . the stunning collisions between ancient ritual and contemporary reality that are everyday occurrences in India.” – Chicago Tribune “A gifted writer with a flair for storytelling! Nair creates passionate! distinctive characters! establishing herself as a writer to watch.” – USA Today “Powerful. . . . Emotionally nuanced. . . . Flawlessly executed. . . . Taken together! [these stories] span a wide swath of Indian experience. . . . [An] accomplished collection.” – Vogue “These stories are stunning: sensuous and touching and beautifully crafted. . . . I’ve never met Meera Nair! but I feel I’ll be listening to her for a very long time to come.” –Pico Iyer “Memorable and moving. . . . Poignant. . . . Nair captures the voices of her countrymen to mesmerizing effect.” – The Oregonian “Impressive . . . striking. . . . Comparable to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer winner Interpreter of Maladies ! and very probably the beginning of a fine career.” – Kirkus Reviews “Indelible. . . . A quietly defiant work of gentle emotion.” – The Austin Chronicle “Masterful. . . . Unflinching. . . . Abound[ing] with authenticity.” – The Washington Times Informationen zum Autor Meera Nair was born and raised in India and came to the United States in 1997 to study creative writing. She received an M.A. from Temple University and an M.F.A. from New York University, where she was a New York Times fellow. Her stories have been published in The Threepenny Review and Calyx. Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Klappentext In ten stories that read like parables! Meera Nair depicts contemporary Indian life with fierce precision and an irresistible blend of humor! wit! and pathos! firmly establishing herself as a striking new voice in Indian fiction. An American porn flick wreaks havoc on the life of an Indian man! much to the dismay of his wife. A young man's uncanny gift for sculpting statues out of sand makes the women of his village swoon-until the men plot to put a stop to it. A small town of "utter inconsequence” prepares excitedly for a visit from President Clinton. This stunning debut collection offers brilliant snapshots of life's small reversals and a broad-stroke portrait of our times. Naseer lay beside his wife in the dark and wished he had never seen that video. He blamed it for all the trouble they had been having lately. He knew Rasheeda was angrier than she had ever been in all their years of marriage. Ever since he first asked her the question, she had flung her silence at him. But that was only during the day, in front of the rest of the family. At night, after the children were asleep, she hadn't been so quiet. Now, with his blood cooling, he thought of mollifying her as he had done for many nights lately, and making her understand with clear, logical, unemotional explanations why he needed her to do this for him. She was his wife, for God's sake. He had rights, didn't he? "Rasheeda! Listen–" he began. "Fifteen years we've been married and now you want me to do this–this thing!" His wife sat up abruptly, reached for her nightgown, and thrust he...

Product details

• Authors: Meera Nair
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.03.2003
• EAN: 9780385721035
• ISBN: 978-0-385-72103-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature