Mystery of the Missing Cap and Others - Award Winning Stories

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Language:

English

228 Country of Origin:

India

Age Range:

18-100

Average Reading Time

456 mins

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Book Description

Mystery of the Missing Cap and Others Stories, originally published as Manoj Dasanka Katha O Kahini was the first collection of short stories in Odia to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award (1972). The collection spans twenty-two years of the writer's contribution to Odia short story. While Sri Das has won wider recognitions through his subsequently written stories, roping into the circle of his admires writers like Graham Greene and H.R.F. Keating, this collection marks a mile stone in the evolution of Odia fiction, infusing into the genre of short stories a neew vitality through a combination of deep psychological insight into characters and situations and a remarkable precision in sytle. The translation is by the author himself whoalso occupies a special places in Indian writing in English.