Collected Stories Vol. 2

‘Writing is, to me, a way of exploring the world,’ says best-selling novelist and short-story writer Shashi Deshpande. In this, the second volume of her collected short fiction, we travel with her into a world of characters and situations that are identifiable, and experience emotions that are at once complex and cathartic. Intensely felt and beautifully rendered, these are stories that will stay with you a long, long time.

‘‘ • ‘Shashi picks up stereotypical characters like the self-effacing mother, the adulterous wife, the loving daughter and brings in many variations to their personalities, so that the very cast of the stereotype is wrecked to pieces’’
First City• ‘Shashi Deshpande is one of those few mesmerizing writers who draw you into themselves quietly but firmly. She ensures that you can never walk away from her stories, having once picked up her book… Since the stories are anecdotal in nature, they usually take place over a day or so, even in the space of a few hours, but more interesting is the fact that they address seminal issues, that shape lives’’
HindustanTimes.com