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On the cusp of fifty, Nirip learns, quite by accident, thathe is not the biological child of his parents. He is moreintrigued than shocked by the discovery, for his familyhistory has persistently revealed to him that ordinary livesin this bloody rotten world have all the qualities of myth,of adventure, folk and fairy tale; they appear ordinary onlybecause one wills oneself to view them as so. The world saw Nirip`s father Pashupati forexample as a captain of industry and the creator of a business empire, but to his familyhe`d always been the insatiably lustful ogre of fairy tale, ever on the lookout for femalesand babies to glut his appetite with.
Nirip arranges to have himself kidnapped and then plays night cricket with his dacoitcaptors because no family member appears keen to pay the ransom and have him back.Witty, macabre, heroic, cruel, unforgivingly insightful, Fairy Tales at Fifty is a triumph offiction and only in part because it asserts that in fiction alone are human lives seen asprecious.
ISBN - 9789351363125
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Pages : 400
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