For King’s characters, war is not just a flash on the nightly news, but ever-present and unavoidable, in real time or in recurring memory.
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To read Mahapatra’s stories is to experience defamiliarisation, which occurs when the literary language disrupts habitual perception by making the ordinary appear extraordinary and the extraordinary disturbingly ordinary.
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Three women, one real as far as history is concerned and the other two drawn from the pages of Tagore, inspired by that real woman—the notun bouthan who was Tagore’s muse and who died tragically.
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K Ramesh offers a kaleidoscopic view of the beauty nestling in the ordinary and commonplace, of movement in stillness and of the macrocosm in the microcosm.
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It is character-driven humanity that McKenzie-Murray captures. The broken beauty of a falling feather or an unsent letter. The loneliness of a suburban laundromat.
