Truth tales : contemporary stories by women writers of India. - New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990. - 179 p. ; 22 cm.

"First published in India in 1986"--P. [4] of cover. Short stories, six of them translated from Indian languages.

The wet nurse / Mahasveta Devi. -- Smoke / Ila Mehta. -- The dolls / Suniti Aphale. -- Tragedy, in a minor key / Mrinal Pande. -- Muniyakka / Lakshmi Kannan. -- Tiny's granny / Ismat Chughtai -- Midnight soldie rs / Vishwapriya Iyengar.

1558610111 (alk. paper) 155861012X (pbk. : alk. paper)


Short stories, Indic -- Translations into English.
Women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.-- India
Indic fiction -- Women authors.
Indic fiction -- 20th century.

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