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The Faces and Other Stories

Dibyendu Pālita

出版	Indialog Publications, 2003
ISBN	81879813349788187981336
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vb1jAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Faces is an anthology of short stories by Dibyendu Palit, a noted Bengali writer. Each of the twelve stories selected here is evocative of the growing isolation in an urban context. The city of Kolkata forms the backdrop in this collection. Some of the faces, which you will come across in the collection, are that of a middle-class man whose own weakness forces him to look up to the local ruffian to protect him against more ruffians like him (The Savior); a housewife who feels trapped in a marriage that ties her destiny with the runs scored by her cricketer husband (Antara); and a mother living out her last days in an old age home finding escape from her alienation by surrounding herself with imagined faces of the loved ones who never visit her (Faces).