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About the Author:
Shama Futehally (1952-2004) was born in Bombay, and studied English at the universities of Bombay and Leeds. For more than three decades she combined a career in teaching with writing and translation. Her short stories appeared in several anthologies, including The Inner Courtyard and In Other Words, and her numerous book reviews and essays were published in all the major Indian newspapers and journals. Futehally's published books include the novels Tara Lane (1993) and Reaching Bombay Central (2002), a selection of Meerabai's bhajans in translation, In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera (1994), Slivers of a Mirror: Glimpses of the Ghazal (2005), and her collected short stories - Frontiers - and collected essays - The Right Words - both published posthumously in 2006.
Review:
'Tara Lane deals with ordinary events in the lives of ordinary people. Yet within a mere one hundred and seventy pages, Futehally manages to compress enough tension to keep our nerves taut till the end' --Indian Review of Books
'Tara Lane's restraint and simplicity, its irony and accuracy are often reminiscent of Jane Austen's two inches of ivory' --The Book Review
'Quietly poetic, Tara Lane is a thing of beauty' --The Independent
'Tara Lane's restraint and simplicity, its irony and accuracy are often reminiscent of Jane Austen's two inches of ivory' --The Book Review
'Quietly poetic, Tara Lane is a thing of beauty' --The Independent
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- PublisherPenguin Books India
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0143062190
- ISBN 13 9780143062196
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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