The Eye of a Doe and Other Stories

DETAILS:

• Publisher: SAHITYA AKADEMI
  
• Author: Mohan Bhandari and Rana Nayar
  
• Language: English
  
• Pages: 164
  
• Cover: Paperback
  
• Weight 230 gm
  
• Edition: 2019
  
• ISBN: 9788126017904

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Eye of a Doe and Other Stories is a rare collection of Mohan Bhandari’s stories, vaguely reminiscent of the Punjab tragedy. The stories create images that, at once, enthrall and terrify. Despite being variations on the same leitmotiv, these stories display an uncanny freshness, vigour and richness in their choice of subject matter and style. It is as though each story weaves its own tale of the times gone awry, unmasking an insanely terrifying though sensitively humane images of men and women grappling with the dread of violence, both inside and outside. A living history of its own times, this collection offers some intensely memorable portrayals of character/situations.

A passionate humanist, tirelessly digging into the rubble of contemporary history, Bhandari manages to resurrect some enduring vignettes, without even once losing his deft control over the language.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mohan Bandari was born in 1937 in a small village, Ban-bhaura in Sangrur district (Punjab). In a literary career spanning four decades, he has produced as many as seven collections of stories, Til Chauli, Manukh Di Pairh, Kaath Di Latt, Moon Di Akh and Tan Pattan are quite popular collections. He has extensively translated and published stories and novels from Urdu and other Indian Languages. Among the awards and honours he has received include Sahitya Akademi Award, Chandigarh Sahitya Academy Award and Kulwant Singh Virk Award.

Rana Nayar is a scholar, critic, translator and theatre artists and Professor and Head of the Department of English, Punjab University, Chandigarh. His translations includes two novels, Night of the Half-moon (1966) and Parsa (2000) and a collection of stories, Earthy Tones from Across the Shores. A collection of stories written in Punjabi by Asians in Britain, is his path breaking work in translation. Besides guiding research, he has directed several plays and published several articles, reviews, translations and research papers in journals of national and international repute.