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Lockdown Liaisons

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Lockdown liaisons is a collection of short stories, from the varying perspectives of both men and women – young and old, brave and cowardly, cheerful and weighed down – Each story a unique offering from a writer who understands how very fragile human relationships can be as they break, suffer and are redefined under trying circumstances. These stories speak to you about an elderly woman who lives alone in a building who can’t bear her nosey neighbors, a migrant worker who has to make a tough choice as he gets ready to walk hundreds of uncertain kilometers homewards, the Hollywood star who is stuck in his lavish weekend home and raves and rants to no avail, a couple whose wedding plans unravel due to the uncertainties of the times, a special little boy and how he negotiates his intimate relationship with Ganapati during lockdown, and a man who finds true love at a juice stall near his Office — in the days before the lockdown starts — but, then, ends up alone at home with his parents, writing letters to a lover who will never read them. And many more. But what binds these stories together is love. These are stories that show how Covid19 is affecting the hearts of hundreds of people as they struggle to make sense of altered circumstances, of the ‘new normal’ that will emerge in a post-covid world.

Shobhaa De

Shobha De born 7 January 1948) is an Indian novelist and columnist. She is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction. At age 17, she began her career model, which lasted for five years. At age 20, she began her career as a journalist, writing "agony aunt" advice columns and features for society magazines. She founded the magazine Stardust at age 23, which included Bollywood interviews, gossip, and photographs. In the 1980s, she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of The Times of India. She has since been a regular columnist for several newspapers. She has also written several popular soaps on television. Ankita Shukla writes for The Times of India in 2016, "unignorable has been Shobhaa De's unabashed description of the womenfolk in her novels. De's women range from traditional, subjugated and marginalized to the extremely modern and liberated women. De's novels take a leaf the urban life and represent realistically an intimate side of urban woman's life, also revealing her plight in the present day society." In 1992, Mark Fineman of the Los Angeles Times described her as "India's hottest-selling English-language novelist," and how her second novel, Starry Nights (1991), had "a drawing of a nude woman on the front cover," and according to De, "they said it was the first time they’d broken through the ‘F’ barrier, the first time they’d run the F-word without asterisks." Urmee Khan writes for The Guardian in 2007, "Her books are steeped in a lifetime's observation of Bollywood," and "They describe a side of the country that western audiences rarely encounter, her central themes being power, greed, lust and sex." In 2010, De and Penguin Books created the publishing imprint Shobhaa De Books

Title

Lockdown Liaisons

Author

Shobhaa De

Publisher

Simon and Schuster UK Ltd.

Number of Pages

216

Language

English (US)

Category

  • Short Story
  • First Published

    JUN 2020

    Lockdown liaisons is a collection of short stories, from the varying perspectives of both men and women – young and old, brave and cowardly, cheerful and weighed down – Each story a unique offering from a writer who understands how very fragile human relationships can be as they break, suffer and are redefined under trying circumstances. These stories speak to you about an elderly woman who lives alone in a building who can’t bear her nosey neighbors, a migrant worker who has to make a tough choice as he gets ready to walk hundreds of uncertain kilometers homewards, the Hollywood star who is stuck in his lavish weekend home and raves and rants to no avail, a couple whose wedding plans unravel due to the uncertainties of the times, a special little boy and how he negotiates his intimate relationship with Ganapati during lockdown, and a man who finds true love at a juice stall near his Office — in the days before the lockdown starts — but, then, ends up alone at home with his parents, writing letters to a lover who will never read them. And many more. But what binds these stories together is love. These are stories that show how Covid19 is affecting the hearts of hundreds of people as they struggle to make sense of altered circumstances, of the ‘new normal’ that will emerge in a post-covid world.
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