Big Size Formal Dress

Ediciones B

Author: Bulbul Sharma
Translation: Marta Torres Llopis
Published: 02/28/2011
Format: 21 x 15 cm
Binding: Paperback with flaps
Pages: 256
PVP: 16 €
ISBN: 978-84 Collection
-938013-4-2 : White Nights, No 6
Gender : Stories
Other languages: English, French

"The day Mayadevi turned sixty-eight, seventy or seventy-five years (date of birth was something that changed according to mood), decided to go to London. "

So begins this collection of short stories by Bulbul Sharma on his aunts, young and old, brave and exasperating, but always unpredictable. One of them has just married to a husband who can not bear the humiliation of being shorter than she, one thinks only of climbing mountains in search of spiritual peace and another begins to work in a palace, day after day, it sinks increasingly in the swamp that surrounds it.

An ironic and bittersweet mix of stories about India before and after the revolution of Gandhi, and a reflection on the position of women and the old traditions and prejudices.

"My holy aunts is a delicious, though provocative, library tales. " The Tribune . "[Bulbul Sharma] writes with humor and humanity." India Today .

About the author: Bulbul Sharma was born in Delhi in 1952 and graduated in Philology and Russian Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Besides My holy aunt has published, among other books, The Anger of Aubergine (1998), Banana Flower Dreams (1999), The Book of Devi (2001) and The Ramayana for Children (2003). Apart from writer, teaches art to disabled children's book illustrator and painter. In 2007 in London organized a major exhibition of his paintings.