Fireflies In The Dark
(Annie Chandy)
Contemporary Indian fiction has come of age with writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy and Chitra Bannerjee who have put Indian fiction on the global map. A modest attempt to scale similar heights has been made by Bangalore-based publisher and writer, Annie Chandy, whose collection of short stories, ?Fireflies in the dark? has been received quite well. The twenty-three stories that form the substance of this volume are varied in the range of emotion that is displayed. A consummate storyteller, Annie Chandy weaves subtlety of emotion into some of the stories, while others are extremely in-your-face. The stories that depict communal rage leave you distinctly uncomfortable, yet there is the clear ring of truth in them. Powerful and evocative are the words that came into my mind as I read each of the stories. The temptation to leave out any distasteful story was missing, although a couple of them were not much to my liking. Let me not name them, and prejudice any readers against it. I cannot name any favourites too, as there are quite a few that I like, for reasons I?m not so sure myself! In short, ?Fireflies in the dark? is a compilation that should be read by anyone trying to understand or even experience contemporary Indian fiction, through the eyes of a sensible, intelligent writer, who lives right here in India, and not a hip NRI who writes about only what he/she wants to see.
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