Intriguing Women - Paperback

by Lakshmi Raj Sharma (Author)

Intriguing Women is Lakshmi Raj Sharma's third work of fiction. After the success of his debut novel The Tailor's Needle and his first book of short stories Marriages Are Made In India, Sharma now publishes a second, masterly collection of stories about women in all their infinite - and intriguing - variety. Male readers may learn something useful too... The stories have international and Indian settings. We visit Europe, we travel to Afghanistan and we celebrate the rich variety of the Indian continent. These are women who may seem superficially normal, but might not be, and women who strive for normality at all costs. Sharma also raises questions; can a woman reconcile herself to terrorism? How do we react to a woman who kills several of her husbands? Definitions of femininity are examined and magnified through the prism of fiction. We meet women who despite years of oppression, are smart enough to ride the 21st century successfully, while others are left behind, unable to handle the complexities of modern life. These stories report, reflect and examine the feminine nature. What is it like to be born a woman, most particularly an Indian woman? Intriguing stories indeed...

Author Biography

Lakshmi Raj Sharma is a Professor of English at the University of Allahabad. His first collection of stories, Marriages are Made in India, was published as an e-book by Publerati, USA. His debut novel, The Tailor's Needle, first released in the UK, was published by Penguin India, in 2012. His article, "Charles Dickens and Me" was published in 2012 by the Oxford journal, English. Several of his stories and articles are published in American and British journals, including The Hardy Society Journal and the Review of English Studies. His academic and literary writings have been favourably mentioned in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Transnational Literature (Australia), Historical Novels Review, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society (Thailand), and Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (India) Professor Sharma has also written a number of plays that have been successfully staged and he wrote the very first book on the T. S. Eliot-Middleton Murry Debate. He has a number of other academic books and articles to his credit. More information is available on the Wikipedia page on the author: http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Raj_Sharma Website: www.lakshmirajsharma.in