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The Dinosaur's Baby and Other Stories : Collection of Short Stories

By Edasseri, Harikumar

Book Id: WPLBN0002828919
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Reproduction Date: 09/30/2013

Title:	The Dinosaur's Baby and Other Stories : Collection of Short Stories
Author:	Edasseri, Harikumar
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Collection of Short Stories
Collections:	Short Stories, Authors Community
Historic Publication Date:	2013
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	Harikumar Edasseri
Citation APA MLA Chicago Edasseri, H. (2013). The Dinosaur's Baby and Other Stories : Collection of Short Stories. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The stories portray human relations, especially between man and woman, children and their parents, the poor and the rich.

Summary
Translation of short stories from Malayalam. The stories are social in nature and concerns main about personal relationship, especially between man and women. There are lot of stories in which children are portrayed as main characters. The stories are selected from books that won the author many awards.

Excerpt
Suchitra is writing a story. Sitting in her room with doors closed, creating a world of her own, she is getting ready to write a story. A sheet of paper that she pulled out in haste from her Social Science notebook lies in front of her with a sentence, “Mother is an evil character”. Writing the first sentence was easy for her. In fact all her stories begin by portraying somebody as an evil character. That first sentence, for her, flows out from the tip of her pencil to be imprinted between the blue lines of her notebook. It is done with the ease of a little bird landing on the window-sill, tucking its feathers closer to itself and turning its head to look straight at her. Now, what is the next sentence? It is here that Suchitra is in real trouble. It is easy to imagine somebody as an evil character, but it has to be authenticated with valid evidences. It should be given a halo of truth, capable of standing on its own legs. Not enough being just a sentence, it should stand tall in the arena of literature and above all, the story starting with that sentence should immortalize its creator.

Table of Contents
Stories: The Dinosaur’s Baby Anitha’s House The Net Of Darkness To Catch A Grasshopper The Cockroaches The Greatest Show Music Of The Mountains The Shroedinger’s Cat Stories With Evil Characters A KungFu Fighter