The English version of my first set of short stories, collected in the book titled Enlightened in Eight Annas, is now available in print form, published by Tamizhini. The Tamil version is already available for your reading pleasure.

As with my other Tamil books, this too would not be available in any of the book stores that you may frequent, be it in city space or cyber space. (Well, if the stars are aligned favourably for you, it could be ordered online from Udumalai Dot com.)

You could get a copy by contacting the publisher (Ph: +91-9344290920 | +91-8667255103 | Email: tamilinibooks AT gmail DOT com) or in Tamizhini stalls at the book fairs held throughout the year at various times in different districts of the state.

Else, send an email to me for getting your copy.

I welcome your thoughts and comments, after reading the book.

– Arunn Narasimhan
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Content

1. Master Despise
2. Muthamma
3. Grandma’s Gift
4. Vision after the Sermon
5. Rama, who equals you?
6. Poached Potato
7. Unmusical Night
8. Deliverance
9. Enlightened in Eight-Annas

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From the blurb (back wrapper content)

A short story is not just an event, anecdote, slice of life or reminiscence and associated lessons. Like a novel, it should necessarily provide wholesome experience, feelings and a collective meaning that arise from it. What is told as a short story, can’t or needn’t be presented in a shorter or longer form.

This collection contains ten stories. Beginning with one that narrates the happenings over two days in Portugal in more than twenty pages, it ends with one that narrates events in Srirangam and the USA, happened over a period of twenty years, in four to five pages. Set in the background of an unattended Ilaiyaraaja music concert, of an attended Carnatic Classical music concert, of Chennai, of Srirangam, the collection also includes one set in Pont-Aven, a town in France that enacts a historical fiction in 1888, narrating the events that made Paul Gaugin paint his Vision after the Sermon. In between, there is also a ghost story, without the appearance of a ghost.
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