Crowded Rooms

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Item Code: NAC088
Author: Prem Nath
Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.
Edition: 2010
ISBN: 9780143068303
Pages: 174
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.0 inch X 5.0 inch
Weight 140 gm
Book Description
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There are weekends when all you have is your stamp collection. For some it is their stamp book for some their CD collection for others pets. For Maya it was her lamps.

Two bored young men on a rainy evening shoot at Maya’s lamps one by one even as her neighbours upstairs spray paint it’s all your fault on a giant hoarding and take the entire city on a collective guilt trip.

In TV is Good an angry television comes looking for revenge against its couch potato master who dared turn it off. And in An office story a pernicious office memo takes on a life of its own growing into a hefty carton and travelling abroad with its evil message.

In the nine stories in Crowded Rooms Prem Nath etches urban existence in fine detail a world of towering high rises claustrophobic rooms haunted highways and impersonal office cabins. And even as his characters deal with the boredom and displacement of modern life they find new ways of engaging with the world they live in some real some dreamlike but always fresh.

Vividly imagined witty and warm crowded rooms marks the debut of an important new voice in Indian short fiction.

The Room with the lamps1
TV is Good 17
Crowded Rooms37
An office Story 57
A Blue Day75
The Chronicles of a Saturday Evening 91
John’s Dream121
Hill House134
Highway in the city 150
Acknowledgments165
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