Literature-In Translation-Hindi
By Swadesh Deepak. Translated from the original Hindi by Jerry Pinto, Pratik Kanjilal, Nirupama Dutt and Sukant Deepak
In the stories, Deepak emerges as a master narrator who calibrates movements of his characters to generate necessary suspense. The names of the characters are often revealed only after two-three pages. And often anecdotes and sub-plots thicken the texture of the stories. The settings in the stories are functional, and dynamic in the sense that their details keep recurring in a haunting way.
Reviewed by: Akshaya Kumar