{"product_id":"going-stories-of-kinship-9789354473012","title":"Going Stories of Kinship","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe had turned footloose, moving from vihara to vihara, an exile not from his faith so much\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas from the times, and a family is a part of the times... He wrote to his mother-it was some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyears since he had seen her. He wanted to become a bhikshu, he wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man drifts away from family and home and becomes a monk, yet nothing fills the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evoid. The only constants are dreams and hallucinations where his mother sometimes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother son retreats to his room, then disappears. It has been ten years and the father, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSudhakar, doesn't want to harbour false hope, but the mother, Hemlata, clings to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArdeshir and Firoza face a similar predicament. Only their daughter, Arnavaz, hasn't\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egone missing; she lives with them, even in her absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman, half-estranged from her mother, comes to visit her grandmother, perhaps\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor the last time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in this collection are among the finest explorations of family ties you will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eread-ties that injure and heal; ties that can be everything, yet never enough. Keki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaruwalla, a great poet of our time, proves again that he is also a great master of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshort story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354473012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.37w x 0.34d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keki N. Daruwalla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325109735605,"sku":"9789354473012","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_df891502-2bd5-4e18-97b8-da7b2daf730e.jpg?v=1660016082","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/going-stories-of-kinship-9789354473012","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}