Book Review: Aerogrammes
They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.
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An American family adopts a chimpanzee from Sierra Leone, but has to ultimately deal with its humiliation of being in a zoo. In 1910, Gama, the champion wrestler from India visits London to fight challenge matches there and ultimately discovers that it is a city which is mysteriously absent of challengers and where athletes are actors and ring is the stage. A woman marries a ghost and he survives in the physical world with his intangible presence. Thus go few plot lines in Tania James’s impressive collection of short stories – Aerogrammes.
Aerogrammes is a collection of ten short stories. Tania James uses short, fluid sentences in these sensitive short stories written with a fresh new voice and new perspective full of strong characters – a chimpanzee, an obsessive handwriting analyzer, an Indian wrestling champion and his brother, an ageing dance teacher, a widower, and a ghost. Separation, relationship, clashes and cultural conflicts, hope and hopelessness form the connecting thread of this set of beautifully crafted stories set in locations as varied as London, Sierra Leone and the American Midwest. The stories are intelligent. Observant. Tania James succeeds in creating individual world of stories that are crisp yet impressively unique to each other.
I had received the review copy from Random House India. Thank you Rukun for giving me this opportunity. You can buy this impressive collection of short stories at amazon or at flipkart in case you live in India. You can also find the lowest price of this book in India at shoppingwish.in
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