Conversations and Explorations: Leela Devi Panikar - Spinning Short Stories

By Gareth Richards

August 2017 BOOKS UNBOUND
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Leela Devi Panikar’s latest collection is out, full of tales written with sensitive restraint.There’s little doubt that the short story is having “a moment”. Of course, many great novelists have also been known for their short stories: think of James Joyce or Jean Rhys, Gabriel García Márquez or Clarice Lispector, and in our own day, Haruki Murakami or Jhumpa Lahiri. But writers who have made their names through the short story, who have claimed the form as their own, have...

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Gareth Richards

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