Inner Voices: Stories — Kisoraicaraona Daasa

Kishori Charan Das, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976, is an eminent Oriya author whose works have been widely translated. In this collection of nine short stories, Das observes the many facets of the Indian middle class, the choices they make, the disenchantments and anxieties that characterize their lives, their petty foibles and great expectations. A dark and trenchant take on relationships, this collection depicts human nature in all its hypocrisies, deceptions, and frailties as the protagonists struggle for something meaningful in the ordinariness of existence.