Zee, Do You Speak Hindu?: And other stories
Book Details
Author(s)Bal BAROT
ISBN / ASINB012JDO72M
ISBN-13978B012JDO724
Sales Rank1,843,778
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Bal Barot’s collection of these stories illustrates a vivid and live picture of immigrants from India in western countries. How the immigrant and their associates change over the time is the interesting aspect of these stories.
This anthology is a critically-acclaimed collection, and includes fictions by new writer and Fulbright scholar with his unique stylistic elements of this art form: the short story. It provides readers with an exciting taste of global literature, and immigrant life style, particularly Indian diaspora’s, which has the authors' own prose in these short stories. A very interesting book to read, not only for those who are interested in perhaps reading new and different short stories, but also for others who are curious to know how the other people in other places live, work, plot and enjoy what the life has to offer them. It has a great collection of stories and a varied selection of themes. This introduction covers brief outline and the commentaries can shed some light on the stories. It is a good book to have on a shelf. The title says what it is. If you want a lot of short stories to read or study, this collection is for you.
In his new short story collection, Bal Barot explores a breadth of characters. Some are from the past to the near present and the author shows how they live right here in USA or UK as well as their native land of India. It's a diverse but cohesive set of stories, and Bal, who hails from India, shares some fascinating observations. Several of the stories exhibit incredible beauty and tenacious human spirit. It's about moving to the USA or elsewhere, leaving or taking loved ones.. Author shares life of immigrants in other countries outside the native land of India. Immigrants portrayed in these stories struggle to make a life and to understand it and to make the best, too. Life is hard and crazy for most of them and it all seemed to pay off at the end. The book follows the time of many decades, places and longing for home, and making the most of new world has to offer.
Some stories are psychological thriller and involve murders. There are chilling aspect between the murders and by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. A distracting political subplot involves corruption and hunger for power. There are stories of comic nature with fun and humor as underlying theme.
This anthology is a critically-acclaimed collection, and includes fictions by new writer and Fulbright scholar with his unique stylistic elements of this art form: the short story. It provides readers with an exciting taste of global literature, and immigrant life style, particularly Indian diaspora’s, which has the authors' own prose in these short stories. A very interesting book to read, not only for those who are interested in perhaps reading new and different short stories, but also for others who are curious to know how the other people in other places live, work, plot and enjoy what the life has to offer them. It has a great collection of stories and a varied selection of themes. This introduction covers brief outline and the commentaries can shed some light on the stories. It is a good book to have on a shelf. The title says what it is. If you want a lot of short stories to read or study, this collection is for you.
In his new short story collection, Bal Barot explores a breadth of characters. Some are from the past to the near present and the author shows how they live right here in USA or UK as well as their native land of India. It's a diverse but cohesive set of stories, and Bal, who hails from India, shares some fascinating observations. Several of the stories exhibit incredible beauty and tenacious human spirit. It's about moving to the USA or elsewhere, leaving or taking loved ones.. Author shares life of immigrants in other countries outside the native land of India. Immigrants portrayed in these stories struggle to make a life and to understand it and to make the best, too. Life is hard and crazy for most of them and it all seemed to pay off at the end. The book follows the time of many decades, places and longing for home, and making the most of new world has to offer.
Some stories are psychological thriller and involve murders. There are chilling aspect between the murders and by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. A distracting political subplot involves corruption and hunger for power. There are stories of comic nature with fun and humor as underlying theme.
