The Greatest Gujarati Stories Ever Told

The twenty-three stories in The Greatest Gujarati Stories Ever Told represent some of the finest short fiction in Gujarati literature. Selected and edited by translator and writer Rita Kothari, this collection features established literary masters such as K. M. Munshi, Dhumketu, Himanshi Shelat, Dalpat Chauhan, Nazir Mansuri, and Mona Patrawalla, as well as accomplished new voices such as Panna Trivedi, Abhimanyu Acharya, Raam Mori, and others. In K. M. Munshi''s epistolary ''A Letter'', a childbride is worked to her death as she yearns for her husband''s affection; in Neerav Patel''s ''Creamy Layer'', the politicized, urban, and upwardly mobile Mr and Mrs Vaghela must confront the deep chasm that has grown between them and their family in the village; in Panna Trivedi''s ''Maajo'', the story''s eponymous young narrator longs for butter-soft skin and a Shah Rukh-like glance from a young man on the train; in ''Saubhagyavati: The Fortunate Wife'', Dwiref explores the selfish and oppressi