Here I Am and Other Stories

by P. Sathyavathi, Gita Ramaswamy (Edited by)

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200 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Shannu Prasad · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read these stories in the original Telugu. The book in my hand was edited by KN Malleshwari and not Gita Ramaswamy.

Fully recommend these Chekhov-esque stories of empowerment, freedom, memory and in some cases magical realism.

P. Satyavathi's stories more often than not contain no villains. Only a couple of stories have truly terrible men brutalizing women. More often, these are about small evils and about people ignoring other people's needs. Very subtle...

[Suyogaya Awasthy · Rating 4 out of 5]

·        “Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life”

 

·        The length of the book remains to be 376 pages and the overall theme of the book revolves around the period of 1970s and 1980s with the main character that remains the cynosure is that Vedaraman who happens to be a thief and is replete with all sorts of strangeness with the primary one being having the 6th Finger and at the same time many stories revolve around him casting doubts over his character as well. The chapters of the book have been designed in such a fashion that they weave a tale of mystery and suspense and depict the true side of our society as well and do so in a consistent fashion.

 

·        The writing style of the book has been kept fairly simple and easy to understand with the main focus of the author is making the readers aware of the surrounding circumstances and the relevant context thereby reflecting the intent of the author that is to create an engaging plot which is streamlined in nature and the same gets materialized in the book at present thus making it a must-read for anyone willing to go for a dynamic read.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

16 stories written in Telugu are translated into English by various people. Stories that one can come across in day to lives that the author encountered. These stories deal with mainly women as protagonists.