Encounters - Someone's Always Waiting  (English, Paperback, Khan Sumana)

Encounters is a collection of five stories that the author describes as 'uneven, quirky creations'.
I like this description... though the I would primarily describe them as touching (at times, disturbingly so), warm (even as they give you goosebumps), and unexpected.

Each story has a pivotal encounter that changes the life of the protagonist.

Stories of varying lengths, they are for believers... believers of the fact that there is a lot that we don't know.
We expect things to be a certain ...

Honestly, I cannot seem to find too many words that can describe what I feel about this book. The stories are simple and yet so powerful. For every story, I thought the beginning was so mundane and everyday. And then one moment, just one moment, that one moment which changes everything. Like a smooth curve in a smooth road. It isn’t something that takes you by surprise; you’ve infact been expecting it. So you aren’t like shaken up or surprised; you’re not jumping out of your seat. But there i...

Sumana Khan's new book, Encounters, is certainly one of the best I've read this year. The stories haunt you, titillate you, mesmerize you, make you think, but above all, entertain you. A perfect book for this winter!
The language is impeccable, the narration taut, the characters real. All the stories come with skull-spinningly awesome twists in the end (two stories are particularly creepy!). But what makes this collection of short stories incredible is Sumana Khan's sheer brilliance of story...