The Kept Woman and other Stories (English, Paperback, Kamala Das)

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Kamala Das

Highlights

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Om Books International
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789380069272, 9789380069272
Pages: 192

Description

�I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man,� averred Kamala Das shortly before her death in May, 2009. One of the most controversial and celebrated Indian authors, she combined in her writings rare honesty and sensitivity, provocation and poignancy. The Kept Woman and Other Stories explores the man-woman relationship in all its dimensions. Deprived, depraved, mysterious, mystical and exalted, each character, culled from experience and observation, is an incisive study of love, lust and longing.

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Book Details

Imprint	General Trade(Adult)
Publication Year	01-01-2010

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Kamala Das poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist and memoirist, Kamala Das, alias Madhavikutty, was born in 1934 into a literary family. Her father, VM Nair was the former Managing Editor of the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi; her mother, Nalapatt Balamani Amma, was a well-known Malayalam poet and her great-uncle, Nalapatt Narayana Menon, was a writer and translator. Schooled mainly at home, she was a voracious reader, and spent her childhood between Punnayurkulam, her ancestral village in Kerala, and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Married at the age of 15 to Madhava Das, she started writing while still in her teens. She wrote short stories and poems, six novels and three memoirs, in which she explored a woman�s quest for freedom from sexual and domestic oppression, and examined the paradoxes of life and relationships with great emotional depth. She is best known for her controversial and provocative autobiography My Story. In 1999, she converted to Islam and assumed the name of Kamala Suraiya. In her later years, she wrote a syndicated newspaper column on a wide range of topics, including religion and politics. Kamala Das passed away in May 2009.

Dimensions

Width	14 cm
Height	1 cm
Length	200 mm

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The Kept Woman and Other Stories

An interesting read consisting of short stories that can help students studying literature of gender and feminism while light enough to suit the palate of any light reader.

The most interesting reads can within the book for a serious reader are: Sedation, A letter to my Grandmother and also The Kept Woman.

Joy De Costa Bhamre

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Sep, 2012

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A refreshing outlook at a women mind and heart

Really nice book, short stories go well for the intrepid traveler, a must buy for people thinking to kill time waiting in Airports or railway stations.

Nice collection of short stories that drive home a sense into the eternal mystery of a woman's mind.

Akshay Raj

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Jan, 2012

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