{"id":46985,"date":"2020-06-24T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46985"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:05:31","slug":"no-presents-please-mumbai-stories-by-jayant-kaikini-translated-by-tejaswini-niranjana-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/no-presents-please-mumbai-stories-by-jayant-kaikini-translated-by-tejaswini-niranjana-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46264\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/No-Presents-Please-Jayant-Kaikini-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/No-Presents-Please-Jayant-Kaikini-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/No-Presents-Please-Jayant-Kaikini-BookDragon.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/>Seemingly quotidian lives centered in Mumbai fill Jayant Kaikini\u2019s second translated collection, the first book in translation to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. These 16 stories, written from 1986 to 2006, were selected and translated by the award-winning Tejaswini Niranjana, who in her enhancing translator\u2019s note writes of Kaikini\u2019s \u201cgentle narrative trick\u201d of turning the \u201cextremely \u2018ordinary\u2019 person or situation\u201d into something \u201csurreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Standouts include \u201cInside the Inner Room,\u201d about a man, his wife, his lover, and their unexpected re-pairings; \u201cDagadu Parab\u2019s Wedding Horse,\u201d in which a bridegroom on a rented horse gets dragged (rescued?) away to a whole different life; \u201cToofan Mail,\u201d about a film stunt artist recalling childhood glimpses of her father throwing a package to her mother from a moving train before disappearing; and \u201cTick Tock Friend,\u201d in which a hospital runs a television studio in its basement.<\/p>\n<p>Most affecting are \u201cA Pair of Spare Legs,\u201d which portrays an incorrigible six-year-old, and the title story about young lovers in the midst of wedding plans. Intriguing, albeit somewhat uneven multi-culti fare for the internationally inclined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/No-Presents-Please-Mumbai-Stories-Jayant-Kaikini\/pid=9727887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly quotidian lives centered in Mumbai fill Jayant Kaikini\u2019s second translated collection, the first book in translation to win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 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