Daniell Comes to Judgement
New and Vintage Daruwalla
Paper Type: Book print paper | Size: 216mm x 140mm
Black and white; 216 pages; Hardback
ISBN-10: 9385285599 | ISBN-13: 978-93-85285-59-2
395 | 15 | 6.99
Daniell Comes to Judgement: New and Vintage Daruwalla is
a collection of short stories by Keki N. Daruwalla, the acclaimed
poet-cum-novelist of our time. There are new stories here written especially
for this book in a span of less than two months and perennial favourites (of
vintage worth) still relevant in today’s changed times. The collection
showcases the author’s enduring range. The new stories are first person
narratives and, with the exception of one, voices of women—city women—putting
into words their moods and memories. The author has deliberately shunned the
violence-factor in this collection. In fact ‘Bars’, a story included in this
volume, is a commentary on the forces of intolerance straining the social
fabric. Coming to the perennial favourites, they are Vintage Keki Daruwalla;
vignettes from the vast repository of a wordsmith who can straddle myth and
reality with ease and finesse, breathe life into metaphors, coalesce fact and
fancy and still sound fascinatingly credible, with his patent black humour well
in place. The collection includes stories where fantasy and myth transport one
to the pre-language, pre-script era; to amphibious trains and an island of
birds. In short, the master storyteller weaves his magic yet again.
Keki N. Daruwalla
Author
Keki N. Daruwalla, poet and writer, lives in Delhi and has written
over ten poetry volumes, a novella, two novels and half a dozen short story
collections. His latest collection of poetry is The Map Maker (2002). His poetry volume The Keeper of the Dead won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1984) while Landscapes won the Commonwealth Poetry
Award (Asia) in 1987. His first novel, Pepper
and Christ was shortlisted for the
Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Asia and UK) in 2010.