My Kind of Girl

Authors: Bose, Buddhadeva
Publisher: Steerforth Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC029000
ISBN: 9781935744054, Related ISBNs: 0982624611, 1935744054, 9780982624616, 9781935744054
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 138,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life —a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor—face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise, and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating glimpse into contemporary life in India. Coming out of a great storytelling tradition, My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India's most celebrated writers.
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