patchwork family
Have you ever felt ‘meh’ after reading a book? I was left with this feeling after finishing Mukta Sathe’s debut novel, A Patchwork Family. I was looking for a short read and the title of the book intrigued me. The story started with the narrator, Ajoba( grandfather in Marathi) and his relation with his best friend. It then spins in to how a bond of friendship, love and trust develops with his best friend’s grand daughter Janaki. While the narrator talks about this beautiful bond, he sites certain misdoings of the society and the system may be to create more …
Some books leave a lasting impression on your heart and make you yearn for more. This book was such which I never wanted to get over. This collection of 19 short stories is one of the best work of Das. This collection as usual is bold like any other work of Das and spans unflinchingly over themes like communalism, lust, sex, marriage, family, love, relations, et all. All the stories are extremely well researched and strictly conforms to the structure of a short story. The brevity and the tightness of the stories keep you hooked and the climax of each …