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The Guest Who Stayed
  • Published:
    Jan-2012
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    eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Thriller
  • Pages:
    217
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A collection of highly entertaining stories highlighting the hopes and aspirations of urban India and the people gravitating towards it. Notwithstanding their quirky nature, bunched together, the stories offer a microcosm of life in India. There is passion, frustration, love, rejection, endurance, despair, faith, deception, ambition, tragedy and a host of other emotions in these fifteen tales.

The Guest might seem absurd and extreme but who knows about the wild passions of the wannabes. The Insult is about a housewife's reaction to a snub from a frivolous youth. Unrequited love ends in a tragedy in Teenage Love. Faith dangles between happenstance and supernatural phenomenon. A harsh reprimand is delivered to a naïve lover in The Girl. Moved by Music is a powerful message of hope and togetherness. A dark, superficial comedy, Cop Fear brings out what lies in the heart of millions of citizens - fear of the administration that is supposed to protect them. Coming Up is a remarkable story of resilience. One determined family breaks the shackles of an exploitative social order setting up an example for everybody else.Mayhem ensures due to one small act of kindness in Hospitality. Mayhem ensures due to one small act of kindness in Hospitality. An overzealous woman gets on the nerves of her wards in The Good Samaritan. Preconceived notions of a charitable woman are thoroughly shaken in Charity. The Beehive is instrumental in springing love.
Parents deeply regret not being sensitive to the needs of their child in Smartphone. Love forgives in this endearing story about a couple who are engaged to be married in Affianced. A Passion demonstrates inversion of morality and shows how that too serves a purpose.
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-2012
    • Deepankar
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    • Jan-2012
    • Smashwords
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 146596035X
    • ISBN13: 9781465960351



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