Boats on land : a collection of short stories /
Pariat, Janice
Boats on land : a collection of short stories / Janice Pariat. - Haryana : Penguin, 2012. - 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas―the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries.This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions.Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.
9788184005028 (pbk.)
English fiction
Short stories
823 / PAR/B
Boats on land : a collection of short stories / Janice Pariat. - Haryana : Penguin, 2012. - 285 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas―the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries.This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions.Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.
9788184005028 (pbk.)
English fiction
Short stories
823 / PAR/B