Ahmad Saidullah

This first collection of stories, shortlisted for the 2009 Danuta Gleed Award, set mostly in modern India, presents the reader with a rich array of eccentric characters and complex situations. Saidullah's characters are worldly and have contemporary attitudes. The dilemmas they face are largely modern. Yet the book has an old world feel to it that is almost mythic. Expertly realized. A fascinating collection.