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Number of Pages
160
Age Group
All
Language
English
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Book Summary
Every Dog Is A Storyteller, But Dogs Do Not Writeโฆ So, Once They Find Out You Are A Writer, They Will Want To Tell You Their Stories, Ask You To Put Them Downโฆ
โIn My Tongue They Say You Can Never Straighten A DogโS Tail. How Much More Difficult To Straighten A DogโS Tales, Then? And So I Set Them Down For You In These Pagesโฆ Only, Be Warned: These Are The Tales Of A Small Dog, Recorded. And All Dogs Are Storytellers, And All Storytellers Are Liars. Believe What You Will Of Them, But Believe At Your Own Peril.โ
Kallu, A Mongrel Of Modest Proportions Who Roams The Streets Of Gorakhpur, Has Some Stories To Tell Of His Town. But Dogs Cannot Be Trusted To Speak The Truth, So The Narrator Of This CollectionโA Web As Complicated As The Mess Of Cables And Electric Wires Suspended Over The Galis Of GorakhpurโTries To Sift Fact From Fantasy.
But What Is Fact And What Fantasy When A Jailer Escapes His Own Execution And Comes Back Home Riding An Elephant, Claiming To Have Been Pardoned By Queen Victoria? When The Star Pickpocket Of Gorakhpur Is Bested By A White Tourist? When A Young Man Falls In Love With A Street Dog And Uses Him As A Weapon, And A Gangster Decides To Wear An AssassinโS Bullet Round His Neck? When One Gorakhpuri Boy Walks All The Way To China And Comes Face To Face With Deng Xiaoping, And Another Is Propelled To America By A Smutty Magazine?
Over A Decade After His International Bestseller The StorytellerโS Tale, And The Awardwinning Jimmy, The Terrorist, One Of IndiaโS Most Distinctive Authors Returns To Fiction With A Funny, Quirky, Unputdownable Chain Of Stories About The Heroes, Villains And Oddballs Of Gorakhpur, The Legendary Small TownโAs Famous As It Is NotoriousโIn The Heart Of India.
Product Details
Author
Omair Ahmad
Publisher
Speaking Tiger
Number of Pages
160
Language
English
SKU
BK0479555
ISBN
9789354475214
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5 cm
Binding
Paperback
MRP: โน 499
โน 475
โน 24 Off