
One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator
Stories
Manoj Kumar Panda(Author)
Speaking Tiger Books (Publisher)
Published on 5. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-93-85755-73-6 (ISBN)
Description
'It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. "Here she is, your Lara. Take her." The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.'
A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was conscious; 'When the Gods Left' follows Rajula Dip, a carrion-picker, as he goes about his business and himself becomes carrion; in 'Fragments', a woman takes a bus to her rapist's house to speak to him and to his family; God himself appears in court to give testimony in a case where justice has been miscarried; and in 'The Hunt', after a tiger kills a shepherd, the entire village turns on the victim's family in revenge.
'One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator' includes fourteen stories of great power and beauty, startling in their variety and ambition. It showcases a writer at the very peak of his considerable abilities.
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Edition
Large type / large print edition
Language
English
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
246 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-85755-73-6 (9789385755736)
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An award-winning short fiction writer, Manoj Kumar Panda (1954 - 2020) has three published collections of short fictions, 'Hada Bagicha' (1992), 'Varna Bagicha' (2003) and 'Maya Bagicha' (2010). He has also translated two plays, All My Sons by Arthur Miller (2017) and Cross Purpose by Albert Camus (2019) into Odia. His works have been translated into English as The Bone Garden and Other Stories (Rupantar, 2009) and One Thousand Days In A Refrigerator (Speaking Tiger, 2016). He has also scripted a collection of literary essays 'Sabda Sasya' (Events publication, 2017). On his short fictions, two books of critical appreciation have been published, 'Sabda Sanketa O Sunyasthana' (Pakshighara, 2012) Edited by Dr Santosh Kumar Rath, and 'Sabda Bagicha' (Athena Books, 2018) by Biswanath Sahu. He has received many literary accolades including prestigious Sarala Award in 2015 for 'Maya Bagicha'.