Description
The fifteen stories in this collection are governed by wry humour and a keen sense of irony and reveal a fascination bordering on love for those who dare to defy middle class conventions and values.
Set in countries as different as India, Trinidad, Greece, Bangladesh, the UK and the USA, these stories are about alternative sexual relationships, a new urban morality that validates a life of indulgence in the contemporary world, and the need to defy intellectual pretension.
Taken together, they offer a range that is unusual for most story collections and goes on to prove the author’s versatility as a writer of fiction.
ISBN: 978-8171672417
R. Raj Rao is a writer, poet, and teacher of literature and one of India’s leading gay-rights activists. His 2003 novel, The Boyfriend, is one of the first gay novels to come from India. Rao was one of the first recipients of the newly established QuebecIndia awards. R. Raj Rao is the author of almost a dozen poetry, fiction, plays, biography, and criticism books.
His collection of poems, BomGay, was made into an uncensored short film by the late Riyad Wadia in 1996. Perhaps no other Indian writer’s personal, literary and academic life is steeped in queer culture as much as R. Raj Rao’s.
He is a former Professor and Head of the Department of English at the Savitribai Phule Pune University.
