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Fish in a Dwindling Lake - C.S. Lakshmi February 21, 2012 PDF  BOOKS
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Fish in a Dwindling Lake
Author: C.S. Lakshmi
Year: February 21, 2012
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 788 KB
Language: English

The body was the only truth she knew. It was the body alone that was left, even as she went beyond the body.'Journeys form the leitmotif of these astonishing new stories by Ambai. Sometimes culminating in an unconventional love affair, some are extraordinary tales of loyalty and integrity; others touch on the almost fantastic, absurd aspect of Mumbai. Yet others explore the notion of a wholesome self, and its tragic absence at times. These stories are illuminated by vivid and unusual characters: from an eccentric, penurious singer-couple who adopt an ape as their son, to a male prostitute, who is battered by bimbos for not giving 'full' satisfaction.Crucially, some of the stories, like the title one, engage uninhibitedly with a woman's relationship to her body. For Ambai, feminist par excellence, the sensual body, experienced as a natural landscape changing with age, is at the same time, the only vehicle of life and tool for mapping the external world.

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