The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories
Books / Hardcover
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ISBN: 0385338171 / Publisher: The Dial Press, April 2005
Presents a collection of stories set in modern-day India, including tales of a successful young entrepreneur who is faced with a partner who refuses to honor an agreement to return to America and a traditional Indian mother who circumvents her Western-educated daughter's aversion to marriage.
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Wry humor and a grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran's debut collection. Bangalore, India's own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return to their old-fashioned families with heads full of Quentin Tarantino dialogue; a successful entrepreneur is shaken when his partner suddenly reneges on their plan to return to America; a traditional Indian mother slyly circumvents her Western-educated daughter's resistance to marriage; a neighborhood gossip is determined to discover what goes on behind the closed curtains of the hip young couple across the street; a chauffeur must reconcile his more orthodox credos with his employer's miniskirt lifestyle.
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