The city of forgetting: The collected stories of Gopal Baratham Gopal Baratham

This exciting collection brings together thirty-nine of the late Dr. Gopal Baratham’s characteristic and revered pieces. In his usual blunt, strong and controversial style, Baratham’s socio-political critiques are ‘peopled’ by characters from virtually every background and class—with their frustrated hopes, wild illusions and excesses. Paired with a stylistic and evolving narrative voice, as seen in dialogue that fluctuates from poetic to quirky, this writer’s ambivalent medium is also his message. Readers are drawn into the depth of his work, and left with a sympathetic, sensitive understanding of events, people, actions and the complexities of relationships

Contents: Life is what it is: Welcome; Wedding night; Ultimate commodity; Cliseemah Caloh; Memories that glow in the dark; Providence; Korean agate; Character study; People make you cry; Small change. The city of forgetting: The personal history of an island; Karma; Double exposure; A non; Living memory; Shelter; Figment of experience. Yesterday’s people: Tomorrow’s brother; The interview; Sundowner; Oh; The leg glance; Dutch courage; Roses in December; Mandarin. The partialities of love: Vocation; Confidence trick; Island; The experiment; Love letter; The wafer; Ghost; Last word; Main-main; Gretchen’s choice; The gift of Sarah Richardson; Japanese girl; Kissful of tears; Homecoming.