Lavanya Sankaran
Hardcover | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.36 | 568 Users | 67 Reviews
Describe Appertaining To Books The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories
| Title | : | The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories |
| Author | : | Lavanya Sankaran |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | April 26th 2005 by The Dial Press |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways,” Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter’s resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his employer’s miniskirt lifestyle.Witty, affectionate, and wonderfully wise, Lavanya Sankaran’s first collection attests to her remarkable literary talent.
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| Original Title: | The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories |
| ISBN: | 0385338171 (ISBN13: 9780385338172) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories
Ratings: 3.36 From 568 Users | 67 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories
While the first four stories of the collection are much better than the last four, all of them are well-written and provide a keen observational eye into the (mostly well-off) lives of their protagonists.
Very true to life portrayal of a town the writer probably knew well long before it became the "IT" place to be, and expanded at exponential rates. Lavanya Shankaran gives a little piece of the life of the town in old times changing to new with whiffs of arrivals of new people and of expat generation returning or sojourning from abroad for visits or more. It is a gentle change in the old establishments of old colonies, where people have lived in cetain traditional ways for long, through colonial
The Red Carpet is a collection of short stories eight of them, a slice of life of a generation in transit, with its amazing contradictions, all set in Bangalore. Though the different stories are not connected with each other, the characters in most of them (if not all) are recurrent, though not in an obvious way, and usually remain inconspicuous in the stories where they are not the lead characters. Many of the stories feature characters who differ vastly from each other- either by age, or
Loved two of the stories - "Closed Curtains" and "Two Four Six Eight". Others are also pretty tight. If you have anything to do with Bangalore, this one is a good pick.
I picked up this book, mainly because of the similarity between the author's name and mine.I like the idea of a collection of short stories about people in an Indian city. You strike a chord with many of the events and typical Indianisms, but the books fails to deliver memorable characters. The stories are more of mere observation rather than insightful stories. The characters are typical and although a story about daily lives could be written well, this wasn't.It seemed like she was trying to
I was initially put off by the casual needless splashing of swear words and then came the red carpet story. After that every single one of them was great... loved the etched out characters their conundrums, the elaborate yet precise detailing of the state of mind... a great read.
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