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Broken Shadows
Sometimes, healing comes only through brokenness.
That’s the main theme of my new collection of short fiction, Broken Shadows.
These are 12 short tales in Broken Shadows, linked in pairs, which explore how survival, destruction, depression, creativity, technology, etc. affects the core of the self. A picture emerges of the deepest self as it wages a battle for itself.
These are all journeys into exploring the essential ‘I’ as it navigates the world in fear, hurt, love and hope.
This is a follow up in terms of style and substance to my first collection, Our Particular Shadows, and two more books are planned in this series of Shadow Stories.
So Our Particular Shadows was Shadow Stories #1, while Broken Shadows is Shadow Stories #2.
For Broken Shadows, I selected carefully from all the stories I had written over the past six months and then arranged them just so. The stories flow from question to question and provide the echoes of an answer.
That’s the main theme of my new collection of short fiction, Broken Shadows.
These are 12 short tales in Broken Shadows, linked in pairs, which explore how survival, destruction, depression, creativity, technology, etc. affects the core of the self. A picture emerges of the deepest self as it wages a battle for itself.
These are all journeys into exploring the essential ‘I’ as it navigates the world in fear, hurt, love and hope.
This is a follow up in terms of style and substance to my first collection, Our Particular Shadows, and two more books are planned in this series of Shadow Stories.
So Our Particular Shadows was Shadow Stories #1, while Broken Shadows is Shadow Stories #2.
For Broken Shadows, I selected carefully from all the stories I had written over the past six months and then arranged them just so. The stories flow from question to question and provide the echoes of an answer.
49 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2016
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Radhika Mukherjee
2 books23 followersRadhika Mukherjee is the author of short story collections Our Particular Shadows & Broken Shadows and is working on her first novel of fantasy fiction called Rackety And The Beauty Spell. She also blogs, writes poetry, tweets and refreshes her soul with copious cups of hot chocolate!
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March 20, 2016
The book is Awesome. Great, Dark, Mystical and Funny.
This is one of my favorites! I could read it over and over again!
I have read both the books in the series and I must say that the stories in this book stand out, especially 'ash' and 'addiction'.
Best of luck to Radhika for her future endeavors.
This is one of my favorites! I could read it over and over again!
I have read both the books in the series and I must say that the stories in this book stand out, especially 'ash' and 'addiction'.
Best of luck to Radhika for her future endeavors.
March 23, 2016
Prose has simple, clear, distinct style that one can easily identify and relate to situations as one experiences life. The narrative is not confined by presumptive ideas but gently nudges the mind to
explore and be sensitive to emerging situations that one confronts to find solutions from within.
explore and be sensitive to emerging situations that one confronts to find solutions from within.
May 8, 2016
This was a brilliant read, with surreal descriptions and largely anonymous but memorable characters in each story. This book is well worth multiple readings to tease out the intricately crafted levels of meaning and poetic metaphor!
May 18, 2016
Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is a collection of twelve short stories of varying length. The author, Radhika Mukherjee, recommends reading each with a break between to allow time for assimilation of the meaning; they have a central thread, isolation and discovery, but each presents a very different aspect of her chosen theme. It encompasses isolation as a result of being alone, of a mind deprived, and of the soul, discovery of self, of pain, of loneliness and the solitary, shadowy essence of one’s own identity. The stories go beyond gender and ethnicity, giving the whole collection remarkable and rare universal appeal.
Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is like no other anthology I have ever read. Radhika Mukherjee has a very distinct voice that challenges the reader to think, to feel, to be. Intrigued by “translucent” I read on, slowly: it is necessary to pause between each narrative. Without contact with the internet, the world, even a rose is enviable; it has all that it needs, whilst “pain” is more than agony. Suffering debilitating, disabling, pain hurts most in what it takes away from life: independence, the ability to survive alone. Each of these poetic tales has merit and readers will have their own favourites. Mine is “cold”, the story of a daughter, wife, and mother no longer needed, abandoned to live on the streets. Appalling, frightening, and yet lit with the colour of autumn by sparks leaping from the flames of a blazing fire. I recommend Broken Shadows unreservedly.
Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is a collection of twelve short stories of varying length. The author, Radhika Mukherjee, recommends reading each with a break between to allow time for assimilation of the meaning; they have a central thread, isolation and discovery, but each presents a very different aspect of her chosen theme. It encompasses isolation as a result of being alone, of a mind deprived, and of the soul, discovery of self, of pain, of loneliness and the solitary, shadowy essence of one’s own identity. The stories go beyond gender and ethnicity, giving the whole collection remarkable and rare universal appeal.
Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is like no other anthology I have ever read. Radhika Mukherjee has a very distinct voice that challenges the reader to think, to feel, to be. Intrigued by “translucent” I read on, slowly: it is necessary to pause between each narrative. Without contact with the internet, the world, even a rose is enviable; it has all that it needs, whilst “pain” is more than agony. Suffering debilitating, disabling, pain hurts most in what it takes away from life: independence, the ability to survive alone. Each of these poetic tales has merit and readers will have their own favourites. Mine is “cold”, the story of a daughter, wife, and mother no longer needed, abandoned to live on the streets. Appalling, frightening, and yet lit with the colour of autumn by sparks leaping from the flames of a blazing fire. I recommend Broken Shadows unreservedly.
April 5, 2016
The first thing that one would notice about this collection of short stories is its prose, which is supple yet strong, evocative of the contours of life that endorse the interplay of light and shade. The stories in this collection exist between the “cusp of light and dark” and so do the characters - all of them are facing the decisive moment when things could change for them for better or worse (if their plight could get any worse than it already is).
As the reader progresses with the stories, he/she cannot help but notice that the stories somehow are linked; some stories, if not all, feel like the alternate versions of each other. Some of them are thus linked in pairs, giving new dimensions to the selves. I call the characters ‘selves’ because I could identify with a couple of the ‘selves’ and I am sure other readers will share the same experience. One of the reasons for this easy identification is that the selves are grounded in reality. They are like the-everyday-us, doing everyday things and going through daily torment. Yet the stories manage to rise above the mundane and connect with the ethereal.
As the reader progresses with the stories, he/she cannot help but notice that the stories somehow are linked; some stories, if not all, feel like the alternate versions of each other. Some of them are thus linked in pairs, giving new dimensions to the selves. I call the characters ‘selves’ because I could identify with a couple of the ‘selves’ and I am sure other readers will share the same experience. One of the reasons for this easy identification is that the selves are grounded in reality. They are like the-everyday-us, doing everyday things and going through daily torment. Yet the stories manage to rise above the mundane and connect with the ethereal.
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March 20, 2016This book is precious to me, because I got back my words, my rhythm and my inventiveness while writing these intense but ephemeral stories.
I hope that they add something to your day!
I hope that they add something to your day!
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