A Fistful of Mustard Seeds
A Collection of Short Stories
Paper Type: Book Print Paper | Size: 216mm x 140mm
Black and white, 216 pages, Flexiback
ISBN-13: 978-93-89136-19-7
350
The 12 stories in this
book, originally written and published in Malayalam over a period of almost two
decades, represent different phases in E. Santhosh Kumar’s writing career
spanning a quarter of a century. Hence the themes are different, though there
are undercurrents that connect them like a blood stream. As the author says,
‘working on a story is like working on a life, a set of characters around the
geography where they live … while writing stories at least, writers do play
God, in their little way.’
A Fistful of Mustard Seeds explores
moral dilemmas, personal traumas and delves into the dark recesses of the soul.
These insightful and deeply moving stories illuminate the elevations and
abysses of the human condition. Sensitive, thought-provoking and perceptive,
each story is a vignette into a different realm of emotional experience.
E. Santhosh Kumar
Author
E. Santhosh Kumar has published fourteen
books in Malayalam including short story collections, novels, children s novel
and translation. He has won many literary prizes including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the best
short story collection in 2006 and for the best novel in 2012. His stories have
appeared in English, German, Tamil and Hindi.
P. N. Venugopal
Translator
A freelance
journalist, P. N. Venugopal translates fiction and biographies
from Malayalam to English and English to Malayalam. His translation of
the award-winning Malayalam novel Andhakaranazhi as Island
of Lost Shadows was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award (2016).