TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manjula Padmanabhan
TI  - HOT DEATH, COLD SOUP: : Twelve Short Stories
SN  - 8185107920
U1  - F 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Kali for Women
KW  - Short Stories
N1  - An American sati, a conscientious calligrapher and a malevolent 21st century teenager are a few of the characters you can expect to meet within these twelve stories. Set in locales as diverse as an orbiting mansion, a public bus and a rural backwater, they are nevertheless bound by a common theme of transformation. The catalysts are small: a rare lizard, a blocked artery, a gas balloon, a blood-stain. But the results include psychic renewal and a murder conviction! Written with wry humour and narrative tension, these dozen tales are beguiling, disturbing and thought-provoking
ER  -