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In this brilliantly versatile collection of stories from the award-winning author of Harvest, the reader will encounter a range of themes, from murder mystery to science fiction. The author's vision of a post-apocalypse future is dark, but rendered with a rich vein of irony and humour that allows us to roller-coast with her into a world where air and water and the earth itself take on new shades of meaning. Then there are the here-and-now stories of bodies turning up in backyards, of love betrayed and sexuality discovered, of bitter awakenings and upbeat endings. Intelligent, opinionated, and playful, this is a collection that defies limitations of time, space, and imagination to conjure up new morality tales for our time.
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Kleptomania: Ten Stories, Manjula Padmanabhan
- Language
- Released
- 2004
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Kleptomania: Ten Stories
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Manjula Padmanabhan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN10
- 0143031139
- ISBN13
- 9780143031130
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.15 out of 5
- Description
- In this brilliantly versatile collection of stories from the award-winning author of Harvest, the reader will encounter a range of themes, from murder mystery to science fiction. The author's vision of a post-apocalypse future is dark, but rendered with a rich vein of irony and humour that allows us to roller-coast with her into a world where air and water and the earth itself take on new shades of meaning. Then there are the here-and-now stories of bodies turning up in backyards, of love betrayed and sexuality discovered, of bitter awakenings and upbeat endings. Intelligent, opinionated, and playful, this is a collection that defies limitations of time, space, and imagination to conjure up new morality tales for our time.