Fat Cats and other Stories
by: K M Chandrashekaran
This collection of short stories, set in the final decades of the last millennium, offers a glimpse into an earlier, gentler time, before the arrival of the ubiquitous smart phone, and before the Internet and 24-hour TV began to dominate our lives. Through an assortment of characters and a variety of locales, whether it is a gardener in Bangalore, or a gambler in Kathmandu, or a civil servant in Sierra Leone, or a salaryman in Delhi, this collection opens up new worlds and gives new context to old, familiar places and things, evoking a panoply of emotions, ranging from shock to surprise to curiosity to sadness to joy. Readers seeking an escape from their hectic lifestyles will find these stories a pleasure to read, and will re-discover the magic of words written to entertain.
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