Description
This is a book of ten short stories. It is a work of fiction. The stories are set in different parts of the world where resources are usually limited, but human values are not. A world in which people are happy with less, they are countries where the author has lived and worked.
The Telephone Call: A telephone operator in Mongolia tries to repay a debt which does not exist. In the process, she finds love and happiness.
The Doctor: A brilliant young doctor from Cameroon reunites with his wife and family through a blessing which came in disguise.
The Prison Island: An old fisherman out in the sea links the history of Zanzibar and its fortunes to the love story of a princess.
A King’s Word: A king in Bangladesh prefers to give up his kingdom and live in exile rather than break the word he had given to a defeated government.
The Gorilla: The silverback gorilla in the Virunga Mountains near the Congo laughs at visitors like a human and develops emotional links with the trackers.
There are many more stories from Africa, Asia and the Middle East…. from a master storyteller.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amitava Chaudhuri has been traveling all his life. A ‘Midnight’s Child’, he was born in Calcutta at the time of India’s independence. His father was a professor of Calcutta University and his mother, a homemaker, was a university graduate in English.
Amitava went to La Martiniere and the St Xavier’s School in Calcutta, and then graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. He did his Masters from the University of Wales in the UK and his Doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
After a stint with multinationals, he joined the Indian public sector. In 1979 he was posted to the Indian Embassy in Brussels to facilitate EU-India trade. As his career in international trade grew, it began to take him overseas very frequently.
In 1992 he joined the UN as its Adviser to Mongolia, and continued in South Africa, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, South Sudan, Jordan, Iraq, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Ethiopia. He travelled to around 70 countries.
At present, he lives in India with his wife Anuradha in Calcutta, New Delhi and Gurgaon.
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