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Crowded Rooms
There are weekends when all you have is your stamp collection. For some it is their stamp book, for some their CD collection, for others, their pets. For Maya it was her lamps. Two bored young men on a rainy evening shoot at Maya s lamps one by one even as her neighbours upstairs spray paint It s All Your Fault on a giant hoarding and take the entire city on a collective guilt trip. In TV is Good an angry television comes looking for revenge against its couch-potato master who dared turn it off. And in An Office Story a pernicious office memo takes on a life of its own, growing into a hefty carton and travelling abroad with its evil message. In the nine stories in Crowded Rooms, Prem Nath etches urban existence in fine detail a world of towering high-rises, claustrophobic rooms, haunted highways and impersonal office cabins. And even as his characters deal with the boredom and displacement of modern life, they find new ways of engaging with the world they live in some real, some dream-like but always fresh. Vividly imagined, witty and warm, Crowded Rooms marks the debut of an important new voice in Indian short fiction.
176 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2010
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July 20, 2011
If the cover does not excite you to pick this book, wait till you turn it over and read about the stories ! What really captured my attention was the set up of each story - the space , the characters and the well defined norms for the characters, totally unconventional most of them yet so relate-able. you will find yourself among these pages - some one out of the characters of 9 stories will remind you who you are and soon you would be left wondering if you would act the same as described. Be it the lady who named and loved her lamps and her strength ; or the writer who has to decide the line between his muse and the real person ; or the girl who let her space define her thoughts ; or the Tv watching guy who had nothing else to do - all urban scenarios , locations that appear so similar yet unique , thoughts that you do not bother to think again but forget it neither .. Its all there in this book ! One of the best compiled collection I read in recent times - totally fresh , totally wow , totally haunting read. This one is difficult to shake off your head for some days !
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