{"product_id":"no-presents-please-mumbai-stories-by-jayant-kaikini","title":"No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Jayant Kaikini, translated from Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2021 National Translation Prize in Prose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Presents Please\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small-town migrants. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people living on the margins – a bus driver who, when denied annual leave, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eFrom Irani cafes to chawls, old cinema halls to local trains, the author seeks out and illuminates moments and feelings of existential anxiety, pathos and tenderness. In these sixteen prize-winning stories, cracks in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed, but for this city, which surprises with its epiphanies, fantasies and ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 10 Sept 2020, Tilted Axis Press\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781911284482\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 304 pages \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57127555203454,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781911284482.jpg?v=1773655022","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/no-presents-please-mumbai-stories-by-jayant-kaikini","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}