Download or read book The Collected Short Stories of Gopal Baratham written by Gopal Baratham and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection brings together thirty-nine of the late Dr. Gopal Baratham’s characteristic and revered pieces. In his usual blunt, strong and controversial style, Baratham’s socio-political critiques are ‘peopled’ by characters from virtually every background and class—with their frustrated hopes, wild illusions and excesses. Paired with a stylistic and evolving narrative voice, as seen in dialogue that fluctuates from poetic to quirky, this writer’s ambivalent medium is also his message. Readers are drawn into the depth of his work, and left with a sympathetic, sensitive understanding of events, people, actions and the complexities of relationships