For now, it is night / stories by Hari Krishna Kaul ; translated from the Kashmiri by Kalpana Raina, Tanveer Ajsi, Gowhar Fazili, and Gowhar Yaqoob.

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Title:

ISBN:

9781953861788

Personal Author:

Kōl, Harī Kriśan, 1934-2009

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Publication Information:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, [2024]

Physical Description:

xiv, 205 pages ; 18 cm

Summary:

"In these pages, we will find friends stuck forever in the same class at school while the world changes around them; travelers forced to seek shelter in a battered, windy hostel after a landslide; parents struggling to deal with displacement as they move away from Kashmir with their children, or loneliness as their children leave in search of better prospects; the cabin fever of living through a curfew . . ." -- Publisher.

Geographic Term:

Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

East Indians -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction

Schools -- Fiction

Parent and child -- Fiction

Short stories, Indic

Genre:

Short stories

Added Author:

Raina, Kalpana