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Original Title:	No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
ISBN:	1948226901 (ISBN13: 9781948226905)
Edition Language:	English

No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories

Jayant Kaikini

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 209 Users | 48 Reviews

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Title	:	No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
Author	:	Jayant Kaikini
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	Expected publication: July 28th 2020 by Catapult (first published November 25th 2017)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Cultural. India. Fiction

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For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small-town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away.

Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution.

In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—“no presents please”—and look once more at what they own.

Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

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I had read Jayant Kaikini's previous collection of short stories in translation, 'Dots and Lines' (Indialog, 2004). While that one was impressive, 'No Presents Please', translated masterfully by Tejaswi Niranjana, is an outstanding work, with many stories that are nothing short of world-class. The 16 stories that make up this collection are, of course, "Mumbai stories", bringing out in bold relief the strange and terribly beauty of lives forged in specific corners of that vast urbanscape. There

"Aamchi Mumbai" an emotion of pride and onennes with Mumbai is something most Mumbaikar's feel. This beautiful collection of 16 short stories proves why Mumbai is a possession for its residents it's not just a city it's a home like no other it's a dream!Kaikini's stories talk about how Mumbai wraps it's residents in its folds. It has something for everyone - meagre or mighty.He writes about the real, raw and mundane Mumbai without its pomp and show. Lives of the ordinary/middle class immigrant

My first book of the year, No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is an eclectic mix of short stories, all set in Mumbai through the years. One of the things that struck me strongly were the feel of the stories. They reflected the Mumbai of the 90s very strongly. The Mumbai I grew up in, and also the Mumbai that the author Jayant Kaikini lived in. The stories show his complete familiarity with the streets of Mumbai. Strangely enough, it was originally written in Kannada, and I read the translated

3.5 stars!Short stories just aren't captivating me as much and this collection, with all its open endings was a rather plain one for me. There was the sympathy and in a few places, empathy as well, but overall, it's a book that I felt just fell short. I know a lot of people love it and I can see why, but it didn't work its magic to that extent on me. It did for a while, but not more than that.

I bought this without thinking on my last trip to Mumbai. I wanted something to bring the memory of the city and its people back to me when I went back home and this book really did it. It is a beautiful read with lots of heart. The author is very good at not just bringing you in to someone's life quickly, but to make you care deeply for them. I'm sorry to have finished it because now I can never enjoy reading it for the first time again.

Mumbai comes to life!

Interesting stories - all set in Bombay/ Mumbai - not the typical Sobo, but the suburbs of Andheri, Mira Road, Ghatkopar, Mulund and some in Parel. Some of the stories are very memorable and makes one feel that here is an author who is a modern-day Manto.