Katha Prize Stories - 10

Here are seventeen award winning stories whose common claim is only to excellence. The accent is on the inherent heterogeneity of contemporary India, in India constantly negotiating contradictions and coming-together, in fiction that both creates and breaks stereotypes. There is no attempt here to yoke together "universal themes' or "basic conflicts", yet brought serendipitously together is a galaxy of master writers - the pioneers and the path-breakers - looking back with longing and looking ahead with desire. Translated sensitively into English, Katha Prize Stories 10 makes for powerful and unusual reading.