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This Is How It Took Place: Stories
by Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
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4.6 out of 5
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AuthorRudrakshi Bhattacharjee
PublisherHarperCollins
Synopsis‘Prodigious, gifted, precocious: Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee was all of this. It is an incalculable loss to Indian literature that she left us at the age of sixteen.’--Jeet Thayil
‘It seems as if I have been waiting here for years.’ Thus begins the first story in this collection: someone waiting for a delayed flight at the airport. What happens next might be described as ordinary, mundane even, but when seen through Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee’s eyes, each moment is magnified, the emotional threads that make it up laid bare. A girl tries in vain to please her mother, a young woman comes to terms with her infidelity, siblings take over each other’s identities – these stories, often told from the perspectives of silent rebels, headstrong loners and nihilistic onlookers, open up the fissures between friendship, love, marriage and familial bonds. Selected and edited by Shinie Antony, these sixteen stories house situations and characters that readers won’t forget. Fuelled by a singular and affecting voice, This Is How It Took Place is a truly masterful debut.
