Short stories
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A retirement home for domestic workers, but who are they? One of the ‘Strange’ stories in a new book
Shreya Sen Handley
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A collection of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s short stories embodies his signature writing against the grain
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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N Prabhakaran’s eccentric short stories reveal how the bizarreness of reality can mess with our mind
Karthik Shankar
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‘Waiting’: A short story collection shows us the inner lives of women but doesn’t ask new questions
Jenny Bhatt
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‘Cat Person’ took the world by storm – do the rest of Kristen Roupenian’s short stories match up?
Supriya Nair
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‘Waiting’: The private worlds of women open up in this unsparing collection of short stories
Nighat Gandhi
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‘No Presents Please’ by Jayant Kaikini wins the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018
Scroll Staff
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Best of 2018: Short story collections
Scroll Staff
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Half Gods
Scroll Staff
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Florida
Scroll Staff
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A Day in the Life
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To Die in Benares
Scroll Staff
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When I Hid My Caste
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The people of this fictional small town have more stories in their lives than big city dwellers
Adithi Rao
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Dylan Thomas is loved for his poetry but few readers know about the darkness of his early fiction
Adrian Osbourne, The Conversation
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This book of stories for children will also give adults insights into the world of young people
Apala Bhowmick
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These speculative short stories imagine what seems impossible in an age of greed and climate change
Indra Das
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A new and varied collection of short stories is a much-needed addition to Tibetan literature
John Butler
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Two stories from India are on this year’s shortlist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Scroll Staff
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The daily lives in Anjum Hasan’s new short stories belong to outliers. Dissonance meets discomfort
Harsimran Gill