01381nam a2200181Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000250005804100080008308200150009110000220010624500820012825000120021026000370022230000180025952008650027765000250114270000320116720250704151614.0240825s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9789389136197q pbk   aeng  a823.92 SAN  aKumar, E.Santhosh 0a A Fistful of Mustard Seeds: a collection of short storiesc/E.Santhosh Kumar  a1st ed.  bNiyogi Books,c2019.aNew Delhi:  a216 p.: 23cm.  aThe 12 stories in this book, originally written and published in Malayalam over a period of almost two decades, represent different phases in E. Santhosh Kumar’s writing career spanning a quarter of a century. Hence the themes are different, though there are undercurrents that connect them like a blood stream. As the author says, ‘working on a story is like working on a life, a set of characters around the geography where they live … while writing stories at least, writers do play God, in their little way.’ A Fistful of Mustard Seeds explores moral dilemmas, personal traumas and delves into the dark recesses of the soul. These insightful and deeply moving stories illuminate the elevations and abysses of the human condition. Sensitive, thought-provoking and perceptive, each story is a vignette into a different realm of emotional experience.   aTranslation/ Fiction  aP.N. Venugopal (Translator)